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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, 23 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Don’t sweat the decline of marriage

      It is not about economics, it is about freedom and selfhood

    • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Britain’s love of tradition comes at a price

      There is a link between the nation’s conservatism and its economic decline

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The myth of western decadence

      The enemies of liberalism are always shocked to find that people will fight for it

    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
      Geopolitics
      US soft power grows as the alternatives become clear

      America is more attractive in the light of Russia’s failed aggression and China’s domestic troubles

    • Friday, 9 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Britain’s mid-Atlantic way on race

      The UK is better at diversity than much of Europe and less obsessed with it than America

    • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
      Joe Biden
      Biden was right to ring the alarm for democracy

      It’s better to be candid than invoke a national unity that doesn’t exist

    • Friday, 2 September, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Diana and the emotional revolution

      An atomised society strives for shared experiences. It confuses these for real feelings

    • Tuesday, 30 August, 2022
      Joe Biden
      Why Biden and Starmer keep beating the critics

      Political obsessives demand that leaders should be inspirational, but swing voters aren’t so needy

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Some bleak truths for Britain

      Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak has a unique chance to be candid and shock the UK out of its woozy stupor

    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
      Geopolitics
      The autocratic world will split before the west does

      The US must act in a patient, even cynical way that stokes divisions among its illiberal adversaries

    • Friday, 19 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Go to south-east Asia, young one

      Courted by superpowers, the region is where westerners should try their luck

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      George Orwell
      Liberals must overcome their aversion to conflict

      It sometimes takes a radical to fight a radical

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Why the urban rebirth surprised the media

      In the Thai capital, the cacophony of a post-lockdown resurgence is music to this urbanite’s ears

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      Labour Party UK
      Don’t rule out a fifth term for the Tories

      Labour thinks it is enough to purge the hard left, but the soft left need to go too

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      When elites are too effective for their own good

      Technocrats soften the crises that voters need to take politics seriously

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The vibes theory of politics

      Our ‘beliefs’ are often just unexamined tribal loyalties

    • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
      US politics & policy
      Western democracies have a talent problem

      Able people of sensible views don’t go into politics. The results are all around us

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Of American angels and British brats

      How the difference in parenting styles explains the two countries

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Populism
      Beware the coming wave of competent populists

      Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have more disciplined successors

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The nation that laughed itself stupid

      Boris Johnson has exposed the costs of Britain’s addiction to humour

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      US politics & policy
      A divided America can still lead the west

      Domestic chaos takes a while to become external weakness

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
      Life & Arts
      The end of the frictionless life

      The new delays and shortages might even be good for me

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      Angela Merkel
      Liberals must learn from the Merkel years

      An entire worldview, not just one leader, stands tainted

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Life & Arts
      Who is worse company, the left or the right?

      The choice is between joylessness and philistinism

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      US politics & policy
      Anarchy is a likelier future for the west than tyranny

      The trend of events is not towards strongmen but towards ungovernability

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