Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 2 May, 2026

Wednesday, 29 April, 2026

Populism

King Charles, America and the futility of growth

The UK’s stagnant economy and the US’s dynamic one are both politically dysfunctional

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 25 April, 2026

Life & Arts

The mystery of good judgment

It does more to shape a life than intellect and hard work

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 22 April, 2026

UK politics

Britain’s desperate need for Keir Badenoch

The country requires centre-left foreign policy and centre-right reform at home

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 18 April, 2026

Life & Arts

The return of Londonophobia

Reflections on an ancient prejudice

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 15 April, 2026

European Union

The weird resilience of the EU

A decade into the age of nationalism, the idea of quitting the club is still remarkably taboo

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 11 April, 2026

Life & Arts

The tragedy of leisure

The combination of AI and small families will create more free time than is good for us

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 8 April, 2026

US foreign policy

The madness of the Madman Theory

An idea that didn’t work for Richard Nixon probably won’t for Donald Trump

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 4 April, 2026

Life & Arts

Populists will regret doing God

A movement founded on loucheness is making an electorally risky turn towards religion

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 1 April, 2026

US foreign policy

Trump learns that not everyone has a price

The great cynic did not expect Iran to fight out of conviction

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 21 March, 2026

Life & Arts

The new old world

A Gulf war, an oil spike, a tense Europe: the 20th century is back

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 18 March, 2026

Nuclear proliferation

How the world learned to love the bomb

Nuclear proliferation could be the way of the future

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 14 March, 2026

Life & Arts

Donald Trump, globalist

It should not have taken the Iran war to finish the idea that he is ‘isolationist’

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 11 March, 2026

Nigel Farage

Farage forgets which country he aims to govern

In domestic and foreign policy, the British right’s vulnerability is its America-worship

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 7 March, 2026

Dubai

We’ll always have Dubai

Why the newly endangered city will endure

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 4 March, 2026

Middle East war

Be glad of Starmer’s caution over Iran

Bellicose critics of the UK prime minister have learnt nothing from the recent past

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 28 February, 2026

Geopolitics

The one good monopoly

Liberals should favour competition in all things but the superpower game

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 25 February, 2026

Geopolitics

How war stopped working

Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan — the story of the century so far is the ineffectiveness of force

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 21 February, 2026

Social Media

What social media gave us

The bans on it are right but it added to the intellectual life of the world

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 18 February, 2026

Populism

Maga will regret embracing Europe’s hard right

Nationalists on the continent have historically opposed America more than anything else

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 14 February, 2026

Life & Arts

Liberals should mourn the passing world

Why apologise for what was the most successful international order in history?

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 11 February, 2026

Keir Starmer

Britain should pray that Starmer survives

The country did not and would not vote for the Labour left

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 7 February, 2026

Life & Arts

Mandelson and the two elites

What the public sees as a ruling class is divided against itself

Janan Ganesh

Wednesday, 4 February, 2026

UK politics

Britain can’t ignore Europe and China at the same time

Tory criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s foreign policy shows the party is unserious

Janan Ganesh

Saturday, 31 January, 2026

Film

The Hamnet wars

The cynics are wrong about a film that will outlast our era

Janan Ganesh