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The End of Progress?
Jan 21, 2025
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-return-to-power-amounts-to-end-of-progress-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2025-01
China’s Trump Dilemma
Jan 21, 2025
Yanis Varoufakis
Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-trump-dilemma-whether-to-challenge-dollar-hegemony-by-yanis-varoufakis-2025-01
Russia’s Nostalgia Machine
Jan 22, 2025
Nina L. Khrushcheva
The idealized version of Soviet history that Russians have been embracing is both dangerous for the people and alluring to a strongman like President Vladimir Putin. After all, if the people are gripped by desire for an imaginary past, they cannot fight for a better future.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/why-russian-propaganda-channels-soviet-nostalgia-by-nina-l-khrushcheva-2025-01
Our AI Near-Future
Dec 16, 2024
Charles Ferguson
Although AI has great potential to bring exciting changes to education, art, medicine, robotics, and other fields, it also poses major risks, most of which are not being addressed. Judging by the response so far from political and other institutions, we can safely expect many years of instability.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-near-future-work-robotics-weapons-disinformation-by-charles-ferguson-2024-12
False Economies
Jan 17, 2025
William H. Janeway
Although economic inefficiency is no virtue, it should not automatically be interpreted as a sign of failure in the functioning of the economy or its individual components. In fact, the pursuit of efficiency often comes at the expense of other values that are no less important.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/economics-simplistic-fixation-on-efficiency-is-flawed-approach-by-william-h-janeway-2025-01
Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist
Jan 20, 2025
Shlomo Ben-Ami
America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-foreign-policy-reflects-isolationism-rooted-in-monroe-doctrine-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2025-01
What Will Trump Do to the US Economy?
Jan 10, 2025
From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/what-will-trump-do-to-the-us-economy