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Janan Ganesh

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Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on American 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, 6 December, 2019
    Life & Arts
    The final weeks of the twee decade

    The more darkness we face in the real world, the less we seek out in our cultural lives

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2019
    US presidential election
    Buttigieg and Biden show the centre still holds

    If averting another term of Trump means choosing a moderate, then the revolution can wait

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Clive James and Europe’s culture curse

    Is the intellectual and artistic inheritance that attracted the late critic a mixed blessing?

  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2019
    US Government
    The Republican right should learn to love the deep state

    Donald Trump’s depletion of the executive will hamper the US in its competition with China

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Life & Arts
    How boredom ignited the age of anger

    The problem with modernity is not that it is too hard, but that it is too easy

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    Populism
    The power of the nation state is over-rated

    Many predicted that passport would supersede party — that has not happened

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Class neuroses know no borders

    The British obsession with social status is neither unique nor even unusual

  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2019
    Democratic Party US
    Democratic hopefuls are held to an impossible standard

    Barack Obama’s vast shadow is not a useful comparator in the 2020 presidential race

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    Life & Arts
    My counter-advice for Generation Z

    Don’t save, don’t follow your passion and do compare yourself to others

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    US politics & policy
    What America lost when the Berlin Wall fell

    With the demise of an external enemy, citizens were free to argue among themselves

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
    Life & Arts
    How to choose your friends wisely

    What enriches life is not the number of friendships nor the depth, but the range of the people you meet

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2019
    US politics & policy
    The false choice between diversity and welfare

    Democrats Warren and Sanders want more government in a high immigration context

  • Friday, 25 October, 2019
    Life & Arts
    A millennial’s hymn to Generation X

    Wedged between two utopian generations, Gen X-ers offer a precious interval of hardheadedness

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
    US politics & policy
    Public cynicism is destroying American politics

    Rather than defend Trump, his supporters argue Democrats are corrupt too

  • Friday, 18 October, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Harold Bloom’s lessons for left and right

    The late American scholar reminds us that not all opinions are equal

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
    Geopolitics
    Trump reminds the west why it liked US leadership

    Those who grumbled about Pax Americana are being confronted with the alternative

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Why we’re all psychologists now

    The new ‘Joker’ film shows the troubling ascent of pop psychology

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2019
    US politics & policy
    The coming alliance of populists and greens

    At the core of both movements is a mistrust of capitalism

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Life & Arts
    The last days of the middle-class world citizen

    The costs of the frictionless life enabled by Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo may be about to rise

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2019
    Republican Party US
    Chances of Republicans deserting Trump are underrated

    Once the US president stops being useful, by his own logic, they have no reason to stay loyal

  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Mesut Özil and the death of the maverick

    In football and many other fields, the rise of data analytics has been bad news for individualists

  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2019
    US politics & policy
    Democrats have stopped overthinking impeachment

    There comes a time when liberals have to stand up for the rule of law, whatever the costs

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    Life & Arts8 min
    Brexit, populism and climate change - FT weekend festival 2019

    Leading writers including Simon Schama, Alastair Campbell, Janine Gibson and Lionel Barber reflect on our times

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Parenthood should be taken off its pedestal

    The college admissions scandal shows that there is nothing innately virtuous about having children

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
    US foreign policy
    The impossible promise of a US Middle East withdrawal

    Successive presidents have failed to disengage. Donald Trump may do the same

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