SEP 4TH 2021
The threat from the illiberal left

The world this week

Politics this week
Business this week
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders

Political thought
The threat from the illiberal left
Don’t underestimate the danger of left-leaning identity politics

Afghanistan
Do not move on, move forwards
America should engage with the Taliban, very cautiously

The world economy
Delta means change
How the pandemic became stagflationary

Defaults in China
China’s toxic twins
The antics of two giant firms show that China’s debt markets are still rudimentary

Famine
Why Madagascar is going hungry
Blame covid-19, climate change and bad governance

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Afghanistan, vaccinations, chewing-gum, Berlin, corporate jargon
Briefing

The illiberal left
Out of the academy
How did a loose set of radical ideas leap from campus to American life?

Imposing orthodoxy
Echoes of the confessional state
Old tactics are being revived in a new assault on liberalism

Asia


Afghanistan
After the airlift
Media in Afghanistan
Cutting Kabul’s cable
Prostitution in Indonesia
Perverse outcomes
Higher education in Singapore
Lessons learnt
Banyan
The missing warrior
China


Property
Red lines, grey rhinos and big mountains
Coal projects
Squeezing out the carbon
Chaguan
Xi Jinping Thought for children
United States


The White House
Polling realpolitik
The Supreme Court
Roe on the ropes
Closing the 9/11 era
Wauthorisation
Dim the lights
Star power
Philanthropy
The woking class
Lexington
Through a glass darkly
The Americas


Venezuelan talks
Machiavellian manoeuvres
Canada’s election
A cuddlier kind of Conservatism
Middle East & Africa


Madagascar
Hunger island
Nigeria’s accidental public servant
Reform, and its malcontents
Israel’s foreign policy
Manage the conflict
The Middle East’s heritage
Bulldozing history
Europe


Russia
Get them while they’re young
Germany’s election
It’s complicated
Germany
A tale of two pubs
Georgia
Too many boys
Poland and Belarus
Stranded in no-man’s-land
Charlemagne
Après Afghanistan
Britain


Britain’s economy
Out of stock
Trade after Brexit
Tied up in knots
Online privacy after Brexit
GBPR
Learning loss
Back to basics
Scottish politics
Going nowhere
Health care
Spin doctors
Bagehot
Not up to it
International


Conspiracy theories
It’s all connected, man
Business


The future of meetings
Update your calendar
Information technology
The Oracle of AI
Rivian
Can it deliver?
Video gaming
Game over
Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos
Theatre of blood
Bartleby
‘Twas ever thus
Schumpeter
Epic’s battle royale
Finance & economics


Vietnam’s growth model
The special sauce
Labour shortages
Help wanted
Bitcoin as legal tender
Satoshis for cervezas
Climate risk
Hot take
Buttonwood
Profit and dross
Free exchange
All tied up
We're hiring
Wanted: a new economics writer
Schools brief


Finding living planets
Worlds enough, and time
Science & technology


AI for vehicles
Is it smarter than a seven-month-old?
Evolution
Cross-dressing hummingbirds
Scientific errors
Autoincorrect
Books & arts


Cuban history
An American tragedy
Liberalism and the truth
The faculty of useful knowledge
Johnson
He, she, hizzer
Israeli fiction
The long road back
The history of books
Keys to all knowledge
Economic & financial indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Environmental regulation
We were expecting you
Obituary


Gino Strada
Blood and roses