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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, 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

    Tories have committed what the alt-right would regard as heresies
  • 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
  • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
    US politics & policy
    The rule of law is in more trouble than democracy

    Liberals fret too much about dictatorship and not enough about chaos

    A London policeman in uniform and hard hat as seen from above
  • Friday, 25 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The truth about emotional intelligence

    It doesn’t mean ‘being nice’, and masters of it are quite often the opposite

  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Geopolitics
    Resentment makes the world go round

    From Donald Trump to the Brics, a feeling of exclusion from the in-crowd drives political actors

    Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa last month
  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The age of the clever fool

    Tech bros, woke theorists, psychobabblers — George Orwell endures because his plainness is relief from them all

    The statue of George Orwell casting a shadow in the bright sun outside BBC Broadcasting House
  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    HM Treasury
    The west has forgotten the limits of government

    Scepticism is precious in a world in thrall to the power of the state

    Two cyclists pass the headquarters of HM Treasury in London
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Why isn’t everyone talking about Niger?

    Indifference to a coup of potentially world importance reveals a parochial intelligentsia

  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    US politics & policy
    The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak

    Both men are uncharismatic, populist pretenders — and prematurely written-off

    montage of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak
  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    Life & Arts
    How Burgundy explains life

    Complex and unreliable, the wine region resembles the experience of living

    A man leans on a barrel while holding a glass of wine
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    Climate change
    The beginning of the end of Britain’s net zero consensus

    It took hold in a world of low inflation and national confidence that is long gone

    Conservative MP Steve Tuckwell gives a speech after winning the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election last month
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Life & Arts
    An inquiry into Macron Derangement Syndrome

    Dislike of the French president reveals how shallow and tribal politics now is

  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    Harry S. Truman
    ‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man

    Harry Truman was travestied in the movie — but he built the world we live in and stand to lose

    Harry Truman in 1946
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    Life & Arts
    The radicalism of having a good time

    The new Wham! documentary reminds us that there is nothing profound or daring about gloom

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    US politics & policy
    Populism has given the elites more power than ever

    The rise of protectionism empowers a ‘deep state’ that demagogues claim to hate

  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Life & Arts
    Diverse is not the same as cosmopolitan

    And the second is much harder to achieve

  • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
    UK general election
    Why Labour might yet fall short of victory

    Britain tends to only give the party a clear win when the country is feeling robust. It isn’t

    A middle-aged man in white shirt and tie stands on a podium with a large Union Jack and an audience of people behind him
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