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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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  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Where did all the reactionaries go?

    Elitist, pessimistic, anti-modern thought has a place in society

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    EU defence
    Western voters won’t give up the peace dividend

    Governments are right to increase defence spending, but their electorates prefer butter to guns

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    Life & Arts
    How football got smart and art got dumb

    The sport is discussed with more depth and wit than culture nowadays

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Don’t assume that DeSantis is a safe alternative to Trump

    Precisely because the Florida governor is not a natural fit with Maga voters, he tries dangerously hard to please them

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The useful fuzziness of liberalism

    Our society, and my lifestyle, is built on a philosophy that we are confused about

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Britain embraces trivia because it is stuck on the big issues

    The fuss over Gary Lineker distracts a nation with no good choices on Brexit, growth and other important questions

  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Reflections from a thin gourmand

    The drug Semaglutide allows you to eat well and avoid weight gain. There are other ways

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    Iraq
    The Iraq war left western societies unchanged

    Twenty years on, the political and cultural legacy of a divisive war is minimal

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Revenge of the centrist dads

    A tribe that was ridiculed in the last decade now runs the world again

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    US politics & policy
    The cultural left has peaked

    Moderate liberals are braver now and economic concerns more important

  • Friday, 24 February, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Stop making fun of managers

    Britain is struggling in part because it stigmatises those who run things

  • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    Starmer should reject advice to be more daring

    The fall of Nicola Sturgeon shows the limits of political boldness

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    Life & Arts
    We need to talk about voice privilege

    A good speaking voice is as much of an asset in work and life as physical beauty

  • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
    US politics & policy
    How the temperature of US politics came down

    Joe Biden and the contest with China are helping to calm things, for now

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    Life & Arts
    After Germany’s fall, which is the paragon nation?

    Western liberals need a new country to compare invidiously with their own

  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
    US foreign policy
    A Republican-led US would not shrink from the world

    The party’s worldview is ever more chauvinist, which is not the same as being insular

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The Premier League is global because it is local

    The world is drawn to its distinctiveness, and threatens it

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    Politics
    Conservatives are too keen on money to win the culture war

    The likes of Boris Johnson and Nadhim Zahawi don’t enter the careers that shape a society’s norms and values

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Geography is (almost) everything

    Physical realities do more to shape world events than ideas

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Protectionism
    The west will rue its embrace of protectionism

    It doesn’t just split the democracies, it grants the Chinese-Russian view of the world as a zero-sum game

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think

    The pod has replaced the TV drama as a way of not reading and feeling good about it

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    Populism
    What the NHS and royal crises in the UK have in common

    The British find it worryingly hard to think ill of non-commercial, non-political institutions

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Life & Arts
    What to look for in a restaurant

    A year of prolific dining out has left me with a shortlist of criteria

  • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
    Populism
    Drama has cost populists more votes than incompetence

    Demagogues can’t see that most people want a quiet life between elections

  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Life & Arts
    The God-fearing case for immigration

    Religion in England is increasingly being propped up by immigrants and their descendants

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