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It has become fashionable of late to condemn core economic developments the world underwent in the 1990s. But in my view, we do so at our own peril.
To be sure, the 1990s weren’t perfect but, despite certain downsides, they provided an important buffer that protected us for a long while against some of the bad trends we now have to contend with in the tumu...
For decades, the word “Finlandization” was a dirty term in international relations. It was used as a pejorative to describe a small democracy that was reflexively prepared to cave to the Kremlin.
Specifically, while Finland insisted on being sovereign, it bent its foreign and security policy to Soviet preferences. In Western debates, “Finlandization” was used as short...
We live in a very strange world. On the one hand, we are seeing parents are rightfully very fearful of the impact that access to social media has on their children.
On the other hand, comparatively little attention is paid to food manufacturers who are deliberately doing to encourage addiction to their processed foods among the general public of all ages.
In the wake of the Epstein scandal, the question of the relevance of European royal houses, due to Former Prince Andrew’s shenanigans most notably the House of Windsor, is becoming more virulent.
But this distasteful episode is for from Britain’s real problem. Something has gone badly wrong in British politics. Contrary to the currently intense poli...
“No two peoples are more alike than Americans and Chinese… masses and elites are united in the faith that theirs is a uniquely powerful nation that ought to throw its weight around if smaller countries don’t get in line.” That is how Dan Wang puts it in his recent book, “Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future.”
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