Christopher Caldwell - Financial Times

Feb 22, 2013

Partisan bias is only natural

The issue is not the rights or wrongs of a policy so much as its author

Edward Luce Obama strikes unapologetically partisan tone
Drone policy naive but not illegal
Michael Ignatieff Even drones give democracies no reason to wage war
Defence hawk threatens to stall Obama team

Feb 15, 2013

Evangelism drained the Pope’s stamina

Benedict speaks of religious doubts as few clerics dare. Politics, however, has not been his forte

John Plender Make popes accountable in this life
African claim to papacy rests on growth

Feb 8, 2013

Drone policy: naive but not illegal

The US is killing suspected terrorists, not people on their lunch breaks in Tuscaloosa

Feb 1, 2013

The bill for cheap lawnmowing is overdue

A US demographic that will vote on the basis of ideology is taking shape

Jan 28, 2013

Obama forgot the quiescent majority

The president engaged friend and foe but not the larger body in between

Jan 18, 2013

Armstrong took his countrymen for a ride

The American self-image of resilience, hard work, charity and ‘dreams’ has its dark side

Jan 11, 2013

Tax, hypocrisy and France’s Socialists

The ruling party has taken a tough line on tax, only to find itself caught up in controversy

Global Insight Hollande mired in taxation policy paradox
French budget minister faces tax probe

Jan 4, 2013

Tarantino’s crusade to ennoble violence

The director uses slavery the way a porn film might use a nurses’ convention

Inside Business Newtown puts real heat under virtual guns
A year in a word Scandinoir

Dec 28, 2012

Gangnam stylishly debunks US myth

America could be in for a shock if it continues to believe it is seen as a nation of creative geniuses

Peter Aspden When we say ‘culture’, what do we mean?
Lex Seoul power – the Gangnam effect

Dec 21, 2012

It’s US voters who really love weapons

For reasons no one has yet fully explained, Americans are getting fonder of firearms

Dec 14, 2012

State of the unions – getting weaker

Michigan’s right-to-work law marks a shift in the political landscape

Dec 7, 2012

Diplomatic credentials presented in cash

Ambassadorial jobs and political fundraising are not always unrelated

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

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER

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

E-mail Christopher Caldwell

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