NB: The rest of us should be delighted. DS By Joe Wilkins With Wall Street on pins and needles amidst a wide-ranging discussion of AI safety, we may well be living through one of the most consequential weeks for the future of AI in the United States. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re headed to an ascendant… Read More Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow
Currency primacy in historical perspective Catherine Schenk One of the mainstays of the global order for the past seventy years has been American economic leadership and the use of the US dollar as the core means of exchange, store of value, and unit of account. This global function has never been without difficulties—in the aftermath… Read More The Dollar’s Dominance
Ravish Kumar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRG-63DSRTI 8.7 करोड़ युवा न पढ़ाई कर रहे हैं, न ट्रेनिंग ले रहे हैं न काम कर रहे हैं। 92 प्रतिशत बीए पास ऐसी नौकरी में है जिसका संबंध उनकी पढ़ाई और योग्यता से नहीं है। यानी मजबूरी में जो मिला, उसे ही कर रहे हैं। भारत की शिक्षा, स्किल ट्रेनिंग का यह… Read More 87 million Indian youth are unemployed. ट्रेनिंग से लेकर नौकरी की ऐसी हालत क्यों है?
The U.S. has hit a new borrowing milestone, while debt as a share of GDP nears levels last seen during World War II Yanis Varoufakis: There’s no Escape from This (with Richard D. Wolff). The Econoclasts By Sam Goldfarb and Matt Grossman Gross U.S. debt has surpassed $40 trillion, a new milestone in the country’s struggle to… Read More U.S. Debt Just Topped $40 Trillion: How We Got Here
By Pranshu Verma In a late-June meeting with more than a dozen of the nation’s top defense technology firms, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an urgent message: The Pentagon needed their help to rapidly replenish America’s weapons arsenal. Outside the room, the United States was mired in a conflict with Iran that was rapidly depleting U.S.… Read More A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy
The World at First Light: A New History of the RenaissanceBernd Roeck Tom Verde Historians typically trace the birth of the Renaissance to fourteenth-century Florence. Then, after three centuries, that brilliant era of artistry eventually gave way to the Reformation, with its shift away from humanism, and the Enlightenment, which picked up (and ran) where… Read More Why the West?
Gautam Bhatia The author has won the Ran Hirschl Prize for the Best Article in Constitutional Studies This essay argues that the relationship between constitutionalism and economic inequality must be understood in the context of the relationship between constitutionalism and political economy. In particular, the concept of the separation of the economic and the political—which… Read More Economic Inequality & Separation of the Economic & the Political in Modern Constitutionalism
Adam Tooze April 17, 2026 In March in Beijing I had the privilege of meeting and talking with Professor Wang Hui of Tsinghua. This edited transcript is published in cooperation with Equator Magazine (many thanks to the editorial team there) with an introduction by my friend Kaiser Kuo. Introduction by Kaiser Kuo To sit in Beijing in… Read More The Two-Faced Present – A conversation about the “short twentieth century” – and the paradoxical twenty-first with Wang Hui
An interview with Magdi el Gizouli Adam Benjamin Sudan’s ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has killed thousands and displaced millions. The current crisis follows years of political upheaval across the country. In late 2018 and 2019, mass protests calling for democratic rule led to the collapse of the… Read More Marketing War (2023)
Tim Barker, Dylan Saba Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42 percent share of the global arms export market. Since the Cold War, Congress… Read More Selling American Bombs
