Why we need to talk about black anti-Semitism
At the Glastonbury musical festival in England this weekend Bobby Vylan – a British-born rapper of African heritage – led…
What’s the matter with Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is reeling once again from urban disturbances, as it did in 1965, 1992 and 2020. After each outbreak…
The decline of the West: America’s Pacific cities face a bleak future
As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what…
Artificial Intelligence is the crack cocaine of the digital age
The rise of artificial intelligence may be rescuing the tech oligarchy, but its current trajectory could hasten our steps towards…
The end of the Silicon Valley dream
It is difficult, given what Silicon Valley has become, to convey exactly what it was like in the 1970s and…
How America’s ‘big sort’ will upend politics
The world may not be turning upside down, but it’s certainly tilting. In the long shadow of the pandemic, with…
America is entering a golden age of democratic capitalism
America could be entering the ‘Great Stagflation’, defined by economist Noriel Roubini as ‘an era of high inflation, low growth,…
Welcome to the end of democracy
We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian…
