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Adrian Wooldridge

Now, genetic screening allows parents to test for a wide range of genetic predispositions, while advances in the technology of in-vitro fertilisation allow couples who have no problem conceiving to avail themselves of embryo screening.

Today’s eugenics is much more dangerous

Successful family businesses often look for ways to secure a pipeline of talented family members. Ferrari chair John Elkann, the chosen heir of his maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, had to prove himself by working incognito in several different family-related businesses.

Europe’s best family firms have a secret weapon money can’t buy

In the past, monarchs were routinely praised for their wisdom, justice and foresight; the subjects were equally routinely described as grateful, humble and awestruck.
LIFE & CULTURE

The Middle Ages are making a political comeback

Karol Nawrocki is a former boxer, whose presidential campaign featured videos of him in the boxing ring and shooting range.

Why are today’s strongmen so obsessed with muscle?

Containers at the Port of Los Angeles. In the 1930s, multinationals adopted three main strategies to cope with deglobalisation and political instability.

Tariffs got you down? Brush off the 1930s playbook

Do long queues for baguettes in London on a Friday morning speak of growing British enthusiasm for aspects of French culture?

Why are the British becoming so French?

Both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq now demand that a majority of directors are independent, and directors undergo professional training in business schools.

DEI may not survive. But shareholder activism will

Protestors in Washington, DC. Today, democracy is in retreat, strongmen are on the rise and Trump is dismantling the rules-based global order.

The arc of history does not simply bend towards justice

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Universities are at the heart of the most productive US regions and umbilically linked to its most successful companies.

The war on ‘woke’ universities will slow US innovation

US President Donald Trump (left) speaking at the Business Roundtable's quarterly meeting on Mar 11 in Washington, DC. Businesspeople are the only people with the personal heft and institutional power to act as a restraint on Trump.
THE BROAD VIEW

US CEOs need to find their missing backbones

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