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    Janan Ganesh

    International politics commentator

    Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.
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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Remember the untemperamental geniuses

      The likes of Elon Musk trade on the myth that great individuals are always difficult

    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      Biden can’t spin his way to re-election

      The problem is the fundamental Democratic offering, not a failure to communicate

      Joe Biden
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Why the young should go to the office

      Apart from dating, there is no better education in human behaviour

      A photo, dated 1982, of young-ish men, all wearing ties with white or pale-blue shirts, in the offices of Goldman Sachs
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Geopolitics
      Europe is still the soft underbelly of the west

      Organisational, financial and ideological flaws stop the continent carrying its weight

      Josep Borrell
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How water made the world

      Maritime societies built the liberal world that continental ones want to undo

      The triumphal homecoming to Amsterdam of heavily laden ships from the Far East. They are met by a flotilla of small boats.
    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      Geopolitics
      Don’t flatter the west’s enemies as an ‘axis’

      Democracies should tease out the contradictions between Russia, China, Iran and North Korea

      Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin attend the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The humbling of the maths snobs

      The likes of Sam Bankman-Fried and Liz Truss crave certainties in the mess of adult life

    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      US foreign policy
      America finds there is more to the world than China

      War in Europe and the Middle East is slowing the vaunted pivot to Asia

      Sailors direct an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter to land aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E Meyer
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      How Hackney became a diamond

      The London borough shows what is possible, and what isn’t

      A cyclist in sunglasses rides past a young, hipster crowd outside an urban coffee shop
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Why is Keir Starmer so underrated?

      His leadership of the Labour party has been a political masterclass

      Sir Keir Starmer
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The evil of banality

      People have never been better-educated, or less original

    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Populism
      Britain is Europe’s haven from the hard right

      The maligned nation is doing better than the continent at fighting extremists

      Kemi Badenoch walks on stage
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The lives politics doesn’t touch

      Affluent, childless and middle-aged, I am unaffected by most political decisions

    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Donald Trump
      What the world should expect from a second Trump term

      The jilting of Ukraine, a bonfire of treaties, but perhaps a surprise on China

      Donald Trump at an event in Iowa in July
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Winners don’t do irony

      The earnestness of Elon Musk and Burning Man is easy to mock, but it might explain their success

    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Politics
      Mitt Romney, Rory Stewart and the tragedy of politics

      In public life, unlike in business, there is no reward for being right

      Mitt Romney appears at a campaign event in Florida in 2012. There is no quantitative value, no ‘price’, that can be put on most judgments in politics
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Why Napoleon still matters

      There isn’t a simple clash between democracy and autocracy

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Biden did too much with too small a mandate

      His big government activism wasn’t demanded and lets Republicans frame him for inflation

      Joe Biden during his visit to Vietnam this week
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The moral case for cities

      ‘Tokyo Story’ is an eternal film but peddles the myth that urban life is corrupting

      A scene from ‘Tokyo Story’ (1953) showing three men seated in a bar and a female bartender
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      UK politics
      The UK is becoming a pragmatic country again

      Britain has turned against radical politics faster than other rich nations because it has lost more from it

      Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer meet Sir Lindsay Hoyle, speaker of the House of Commons, at Westminster Hall in London in May this year
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      A malaise can be worse than a crisis

      Europe is hard to reform because things are tolerably bad

      A football player in Arsenal’s red and white kit
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      US politics & policy
      The rule of law is in more trouble than democracy

      Liberals fret too much about dictatorship and not enough about chaos

      A London policeman in uniform and hard hat as seen from above
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The truth about emotional intelligence

      It doesn’t mean ‘being nice’, and masters of it are quite often the opposite

    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Geopolitics
      Resentment makes the world go round

      From Donald Trump to the Brics, a feeling of exclusion from the in-crowd drives political actors

      Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa last month
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      The age of the clever fool

      Tech bros, woke theorists, psychobabblers — George Orwell endures because his plainness is relief from them all

      The statue of George Orwell casting a shadow in the bright sun outside BBC Broadcasting House
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