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Harold James

Harold James

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Fascism in Our Time

PRINCETON – No one knows how the US presidential election will turn out. One possibility is that the Trump bubble will finally burst, allowing for a...

28.10.2024 80

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Harold James

Trump’s Tariffs Are an Opportunity for Harris

PRINCETON – Although trade policy is being debated everywhere, rarely is it addressed honestly. Instead of focusing on costs and benefits, the issue...

07.10.2024 40

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Who Will Create a New European Culture of Debate?

SALZBURG – There is something rotten in the state of Europe. Central to French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Sorbonne in April was a...

27.08.2024 30

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Is the Polycrisis So Bad?

PRINCETON – The humming world economy and recent stock-market euphoria would seem to be at odds with our crisis-torn, fragmenting world. Seemingly...

31.07.2024 50

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The Trussing Hour

PRINCETON – “Trussing” is an old English verb with various connotations. It can mean putting in beams to support a building or bridge, or tying...

02.07.2024 10

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Is Biden Self-Destructing?

PRINCETON – Globally, democracies appear fragile and on the defensive. Comparisons with the 1970s and the interwar period abound. In the United...

06.06.2024 20

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What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

PRINCETON – Gold has returned to the international monetary system. Over 50 years ago, US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”...

01.05.2024 90

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Europe’s High Noon

BERLIN – Democracies tend to struggle with security challenges. That was the context that led W.H. Auden to call the 1930s a “low dishonest...

26.03.2024 30

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The Financial March to War

BERLIN – Since global financial stability ought to be considered a public good, many international institutions devote themselves to establishing...

27.02.2024 30

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Harold James

The Politics of Despair

BERLIN – Public opinion about the world today is oddly bifurcated. Big industrial economies, including China, are gripped by a generalized mood of...

30.01.2024 10

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Harold James

A Year of Political Chicken

PRINCETON – The year 2023 ended on a sour, cheerless note, with looming elections in 2024 intensifying fears about the fate of democracy and the...

02.01.2024 50

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