Adrian Wooldridge
Today’s eugenics is much more dangerous
Scientific progress, demographics, geopolitics and the decline of Christianity are weakening our moral defences against the misuse of genetics
Europe’s best family firms have a secret weapon money can’t buy
Tradition provides impossible-to-quantify corporate benefits, not least self-confidence and a sense of perspective
The Middle Ages are making a political comeback
We are currently witnessing the overturning of all the basic assumptions about progress that have guided thinking since the Enlightenment
Why are today ’s strongmen so obsessed with muscle?
Poland’s new president has the most important qualification for a national populist leader – a love of physical strength
Tariffs got you down? Brush off the 1930s playbook
Ninety years ago, multinational firms found multiple ways to get around protectionism and political instability
Why are the British becoming so French?
The UK is hardly equipped for its recent embrace of both presidential politics and national champions
DEI may not survive. But shareholder activism will
The death of Robert Monks, the godfather of shareholder activism, reminds us how much it has reinvigorated the corporate world
The arc of history does not simply bend towards justice
Progressives preach the triumph of progressivism even as strongmen dig themselves deeper into power across the world
The war on ‘woke’ universities will slow US innovation
It is hard not to sympathise with the Trump administration’s criticisms of US universities. The ivory tower has been badly corroded in recent years by the twin evils of the “woke mind virus” and admin...
US CEOs need to find their missing backbones
Corporate America needs to push Trump in more business-friendly directions before he does lasting damage to the economy
