Are we ready for AI creative destruction?
The ancient Chinese concept of yin and yang attests to humans’ tendency to see patterns of interlocked opposites in the world around us, a predilection that has lent itself to various theories of...
What it takes to build democratic institutions
There are plenty of good models around to help both developing and industrialised countries build better democratic institutions. But with its abortive attempts to draft a new constitution, Chile is...
Clarifying America’s great inequality debate
Debates about inequality trends in the United States have leapt from the pages of academic journals to leading media outlets. While conservatives have long questioned whether US inequality has really...
What anti-Trumpism is missing
These are unique and troubling times for the United States. A twice-impeached former president who now faces four separate indictments for serious crimes is the de facto leader of one of the two main...
How to fix the platform economy
Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), Microsoft, Twitter, and a few other tech companies have come to dominate what we see and hear on the Internet, shaping hundreds of millions of people’s...
Environmental tariffs could be a game changer
Environmental tariffs may be humanity’s last hope for mitigating climate change, which is on course to become increasingly devastating if we do not curb our greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions.The most...
The upside of polarisation?
While there are no ironclad laws of politics, two tendencies in the United States – midterm swings against the incumbent party (the “midterm blues”) and the negative electoral effects of...