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Christopher Caldwell

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

Mr Caldwell is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine. He is at work on a book on immigration, Islam and Europe.

He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature. - -

Disasters and dictatorships

Burma has been pledged tens of millions of dollars and expertise, yet the generals act as if they would be doing the world a favour by accepting them, writes Christopher Caldwell

Austria, incest: real news at last

The Fritzl incest saga is not just for tabloids. It has cracked the ‘A’ sections of quality dailies in every city on the planet, writes Christopher Caldwell

More mortal than some

Lifespan inequality is a matter for the political system, not the medical profession, writes Christopher Caldwell

Humility and Harry Potter

Rowling has a Hollywood star’s relationship to her public, but none of the star’s practice in dissembling contempt for it, writes Christopher Caldwell

The lazy, crazy middle class

Average Americans feel as though they are barely clinging to their position on the social ladder, writes Christopher Caldwell

The perils of shaping choice

People misjudge their best interest even in simple decisions where all the information is available but the proposals in a brilliant new book should be treated with care, writes Christopher Caldwell

China will not be cowed

A boycott of the Olympic opening ceremonies would not change the objective realities one whit, writes Christopher Caldwell

Obama breaks the secret code

Bringing subterranean racial narratives into the light of day, where they can be debated openly, is a risk, writes Christopher Caldwell

Birth of a ‘creedal’ nation

When beliefs, rather than history, are the basis of community, beliefs thought to be wrong are a threat to the state, writes Christopher Caldwell

Tall tales of the would-be victim

Scandals over fictional memoirs are epidemic. But how does one gain moral authority in a system that confers it based on race or birth, asks Christopher Caldwell

What Obama owes to Reagan

The illusion of Cuba’s caudillo

A-listers at the barricades

Why Kerviel is so unsettling

Bipartisan allegiances

Comment: In defence of the right to offend

Confusion over Scientology

Politics of the personal

A question of competition

Obama can end the racial barter