Nov 30, 2012

Norquist’s pledge on tax is unworthy

The Taxpayer Protection Pledge symbolises a political system short on legitimacy

Nov 23, 2012

Hostess went off long before its Twinkies

Life was sweet at the business as long as the money to sustain the generosity lasted

Nov 16, 2012

It’s right to test learning by heart

To forget that sense and memory are allies would be a big mistake

Nov 9, 2012

Time to sort out US immigration

Ethnicisation of the vote will make Republicans much less comfortable with an amnesty

Nov 7, 2012

Lukewarm Romney didn’t take a stand

The president’s plan to tax high earners beat his challenger’s tax breaks for ‘job creators’

Nov 2, 2012

Campaign sucks hope out of US public

Rhetoric signals middle class may have lost control of political culture

Oct 26, 2012

Charity: America’s alternative to tax

Giving helps the rich launder economic power they do not need into political power they do

Oct 19, 2012

US consensus on free trade is faltering

Enthusiasm for liberalisation has been on the slide for years

Oct 12, 2012

Technology turns the tables on punters

Much-heralded improvements do not always benefit the consumer

Oct 5, 2012

Impenitent Marxist and free thinker

Hobsbawm was beloved even of those who do not share his politics

Sep 28, 2012

NFL falls foul of the ‘drunken Santa’ problem

An attempt at penny pinching has turned out to be a false economy

Sep 21, 2012

Romney’s real problem is a detachment from reality

Businessmen who dabble in politics lack the skills of those who build their lives around it

Sep 14, 2012

EuroVegas is a gamble not worth taking

Being chosen as the site for a new mega-casino is a victory no other city should envy

Sep 7, 2012

Just who are we? America’s middle class dilemma

Both parties are desperate to identify with the broad group

Aug 31, 2012

A shallow, treacly but devastating speech

Casting Romney as Mister Moneybags is looking like a mistake

Aug 24, 2012

Augusta finally embraces 21st-century elitism

The golf club is accepting female members – if they are rich and well-connected

Aug 17, 2012

When Facebook wants to help you find your friends

We do not know how facial recognition will be used

Aug 13, 2012

‘Radical’ Ryan is the right choice

Romney’s running mate speaks for those who think the US is nearing budgetary Armageddon

Aug 10, 2012

Ivory towers will be toppled by an online ‘tsunami’

The shift to cyber education will inevitably bring a consolidation of personnel

Aug 4, 2012

A love letter from a US conservative to the postman

Selling monopolies to private parties is a Russian kind of medicine: worse than the disease

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER

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

He is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a contributing writer for the New York Times magazine. He is the author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature

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