Project Syndicate
No barbarism without poetry
If our world is becoming full of poets and executioners, we need more judges and thinkers to counter the new tendency.
Nato is not a hegemonic burden
Why is US paying twice as much as the average Nato ally when it is geographically removed from all major conflict zones?
Indian democracy’s moment of truth
Once admired for its commitment to pluralism, India no longer stands out as a model democracy.
What fundamentalist Christians see in Trump
Now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, it seems fitting to address a source of perplexity that has persisted ever since he arrived on the political scene: how can the US’ fundamentalist Christians be so enthusiastic about so thoroughly un-Christian a politician?
Judgment days for democracy
To survive this period of populist assaults on the democratic order, courts will need to embrace their proper role as arbiters of justice.
The Trump Effect Takes Europe
Perhaps Trump’s biggest contribution has been to Europe’s political unity.
Fixing global economic governance
Rarely have the shortcomings of world leaders and existing institutional arrangements been so glaringly obvious.
The real dividing line in Israel-Palestine
The choice is not one hardline faction or the other; it is between fundamentalists and all those who still believe in the possibility of peaceful co-existence.
What will follow Hamas’ war?
Israeli clarions are trumpeting vengeance. When they fall silent, introspection will follow.
Freedom without justice
If we believe that things will fall into place by just letting them take their course, we will end up with multiple catastrophes.
Inequality and democracy
Should we be surprised that so many people view the growing concentration of wealth with suspicion, or that they believe the system is rigged?
Israel’s moment of reckoning is long overdue
For decades, Israel has tried to manage the conflict, only to be managed by it.
The debt supercycle comes to China
Could the debt woes of Country Garden, the behemoth Chinese real-estate developer now facing billions of dollars in losses, augur the cycle’s next turn?
The real cost of de-dollarisation
The dollar’s uncontested reign is coming to an end, with far-reaching global economic consequences.
