Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 4 February, 2026

3 hours ago

Saturday, 31 January, 2026

Film

The Hamnet wars

The cynics are wrong about a film that will outlast our era

Wednesday, 28 January, 2026

Donald Trump

Why Taco is a problem for Europe

The continent needs a sense of crisis in order to change, and Donald Trump keeps it just short of that

Saturday, 24 January, 2026

Life & Arts

A liberal in illiberal times

Reflections on a decade that was less traumatic than it promised to be

Wednesday, 21 January, 2026

US foreign policy

Always beware a declining superpower

Even under normal leadership, a status-anxious US would be lashing out

Saturday, 17 January, 2026

Life & Arts

The right will want a United States of Europe

Conservatives will come to see a unified continent as the only defence against America and China

Wednesday, 14 January, 2026

UK politics

How Nigel Farage gets away with it

His two great liabilities, Brexit and Donald Trump, are unmentionable in British politics

Saturday, 10 January, 2026

Life & Arts

The myth of ‘mindset’

As a key to success, mentality gets too much attention and talent too little

Wednesday, 7 January, 2026

US politics & policy

How Trump became just another Republican president

His enthusiasm for big business and foreign intervention is more Reaganite than populist

Saturday, 20 December, 2025

Life & Arts

The case for denial

In a darkening world, burying one’s head in the sand is a rational strategy

Wednesday, 17 December, 2025

Geopolitics

When business and democracy don’t mix

Liberals were wrong to assume the two ideas are natural twins

Saturday, 13 December, 2025

Life & Arts

The other kind of migrant

Those who move within a country have an under-scrutinised effect on it

Wednesday, 10 December, 2025

Geopolitics

The clash within civilisations

The important conflicts today take place inside cultural-religious blocs, not between them

Saturday, 6 December, 2025

Life & Arts

Maga’s strange rage against Europe

The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

Politics

The rise of unpopular populism

On birth rates, the lockdown and above all Brexit, the right is out of touch with the public

Saturday, 29 November, 2025

Life & Arts

The coup de grâce for woke

The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ a few years ago

Saturday, 22 November, 2025

Life & Arts

The Anglo-Australian drift

Two increasingly different countries are contesting the Ashes

Wednesday, 19 November, 2025

Labour Party UK

The Labour government will deteriorate from here

Starmer and Reeves are unfit and their likeliest usurpers are worse

Saturday, 8 November, 2025

Life & Arts

The tragedy of specialisation

A lack of intrepid amateurs might explain stagnant societies

Wednesday, 5 November, 2025

Politics

Mamdani and the new challenge for nation states

The metropolis and the heartland provoke each other into extremes, as the New York mayoral race shows

Saturday, 1 November, 2025

Life & Arts

The cosmopolitan conservative

Why the right are often better internationalists than the left

Wednesday, 29 October, 2025

Europe

Europe and the curse of geography

A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent

Saturday, 25 October, 2025

Life & Arts

The Temu theory of populism

Capitalism has set expectations of choice and convenience that no state can match

Wednesday, 22 October, 2025

Politics

Politics not tech makes the world go round

The future, like the recent past, will be shaped in the public realm

Saturday, 18 October, 2025

Life & Arts

Trump and the return of Great Man theory

The president vindicates an unfashionable view of how history works