May 17, 2013

The dilemmas of genetic screening

Angelina Joile ©Getty

Some awkward questions arise with new medical technology

Mark Zuckerberg ©Bloomberg May 10, 2013

An artful answer to the tech talent gap

Mark Zuckerberg’s pressure group shows contempt for public opinion

Italy Wedding ©Dreamstime May 3, 2013

Immigrants and young Italy’s sorrows

In an age of debt, indifference over where a country’s residents come from is not reasonable

US Customs and Border Control ©AFP Apr 26, 2013

The consequences of immigration reform

Render citizenship shaky and we will find we are nearer old rules of belonging than we think

Apr 19, 2013

The limits of a crowd-sourced manhunt

Speculation should be avoided when the facts are still unknown

youtube viewed on a computer screen ©Dreamstime Apr 12, 2013

In the unthinking age, seeing is believing

The written word is becoming the language of a scholarly establishment

Press surround Gillian Duffy’s Rochdale home in April 2010 after Gordon Brown was recorded dismissing her as ‘bigoted’ ©Reuters From LIFE & ARTS Apr 12, 2013

Out of many

A call for debate on immigration policy. Christopher Caldwell reviews ‘The British Dream’, by David Goodhart

Job seekers stand in line to enter the City of Chicago job fair at Kennedy King College in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012. The U.S. Department of Labor is scheduled to release initial jobless claims data on Nov. 15. ©Bloomberg Apr 5, 2013

End of the US nursery rhyme economy

Set against the upheaval in the jobs market, ideological and ethnic shifts look minor

Italy's highest court has ordered a retrial for Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito over the 2007 killing of Meredith Kercher. Please click on this link for more images. http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=164927293&EditorialProduct=News PERUGIA, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 26: Amanda Knox attends her appeal hearing on September 26, 2011 in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox is awaiting the verdict of her appeal that could see her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher overturned. American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, who were convicted in 2009 of killing their British roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, have served nearly four years in jail after being sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively. ©Getty Mar 29, 2013

US must query any Knox extradition plea

The double jeopardy principle argues against the American’s possible return to Italy

Mar 22, 2013

GOP needs more than borrowed rhetoric

The party seems dumb. It seems uncool. And there is a reason for that

Mar 15, 2013

A new Pope with an old and humble view

The quality attributed to Francis will be taken to mean conservatism

Mar 8, 2013

Apathy over the Dow’s rise is unsurprising

What looks like a rally may just be the effect of elites passing money among themselves

Mar 1, 2013

Coaxers and coercers on common ground

Two books about behaviour change share a loss of faith in an educable public

Feb 22, 2013

Partisan bias is only natural

The issue is not the rights or wrongs of a policy so much as its author

Feb 15, 2013

Evangelism drained the Pope’s stamina

Benedict speaks of religious doubts as few clerics dare. Politics, however, has not been his forte

Feb 8, 2013

Drone policy: naive but not illegal

The US is killing suspected terrorists, not people on their lunch breaks in Tuscaloosa

Feb 1, 2013

The bill for cheap lawnmowing is overdue

A US demographic that will vote on the basis of ideology is taking shape

Jan 28, 2013

Obama forgot the quiescent majority

The president engaged friend and foe but not the larger body in between

Jan 18, 2013

Armstrong took his countrymen for a ride

The American self-image of resilience, hard work, charity and ‘dreams’ has its dark side

Jan 11, 2013

Tax, hypocrisy and France’s Socialists

The ruling party has taken a tough line on tax, only to find itself caught up in controversy

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER

Christopher Caldwell Christopher Caldwell writes a weekly column on politics, culture and international affairs for the Financial Times.

He is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature

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