Category: Opinion

The Sun rises every day. Water boils at 100°C. Apples fall to the ground. We live in a world in which objects behave the same given the same circumstances.

European foreign policy experts are reviving ideas about strategic autonomy from 2016. They fail to understand how much has changed in the last eight years.

It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.

The wisdom of the ancients advises us to reduce our anxiety by reflecting only on what is in our control.

Mark Krotov at n+1: Trump is America’s choice. No one, I think, is more responsible for this week’s result than Joe Biden.

Hafsa Kanjwali in Aeon: India is a postcolonial power. Its rule in Kashmir is colonial.

Four tremendous forces — AI, the energy transition, climate change and geopolitics — will accelerate over the next president’s term.

Democracy is best understood as a game, one in which the players pursue power and resolve conflicts through elections rather than brute force.

The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?

“Most of the law professors and judges who read it were polite enough to say the arguments were thought provoking, but…”

In an unfortunate echo of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, Harris spent far too much time trying to argue that Trump was unfit for the presidency.

Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male.