Commentary / World Jan 2, 2021

COVID-19 exposes the cracks in the world's big democracies

The U.S., U.K. and India have suffered at the hands of incompetent leaders and a severe lack of preparedness.

Commentary Nov 15, 2020

Macron doesn’t need to insult Islam to defend free speech

It is one thing to defend freedom of expression — an obligation of all democratic leaders. It is quite another to deploy a whole nation behind a particular expression of that freedom.

Commentary / Japan Nov 11, 2020

America’s age of anger is just getting started

There is little respite from clownish demagoguery once a long-standing political order loses credibility and legitimacy among a significantly large proportion of the population.

Commentary / World | Commentary May 17, 2020

Pandemic could foster new attitudes toward immigration

In recent weeks, doctors, nurses and care workers for the British National Health Service — in particular, immigrants — are presently being hailed for their gritty sense of duty, for standing between many people and premature death.

Commentary / World Apr 14, 2020

With crisis, old media suddenly has the upper hand

After failing to anticipate the financial crisis, networks and major newspapers have earned a good chance of flourishing in the future.

Commentary / World Mar 23, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak will revive the all-powerful state

Much maligned in recent years, big government will come back — and with it, the potential for both greater good and evil. Threatening the world with a long recession, the new coronavirus looks set to inaugurate a turbulent new political and economic era. Its main ...