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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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  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    US society
    America’s cultural supremacy and geopolitical weakness

    The notion of ‘decline’ is too crude to capture what is happening to the US in the 21st century

    A footballer in a black strip tackles a player in red livery
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak discovers that politics isn’t like business

    Like so many politicians from the private sector, the UK prime minister doesn’t understand fanatics

    Rishi Sunak
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Politics
    Voters don’t want to hear the fiscal truth

    For trying to do something about public debt, Emmanuel Macron is the politician of the year

    Protesters march against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms last spring
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Politics
    American and European populism aren’t the same

    The US variant is much more of a personality cult

    Geert Wilders
  • 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
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