Adrian Wooldridge
ADRIAN WOOLDRIDGE IS THE GLOBAL BUSINESS COLUMNIST FOR BLOOMBERG OPINION. A FORMER WRITER AT THE ECONOMIST, HE IS AUTHOR, MOST RECENTLY, OF “THE ARISTOCRACY OF TALENT: HOW MERITOCRACY MADE THE MODERN WORLD". @ADWOOLDRIDGE
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
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
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
Maga wants to end capitalism as we know it
Its goal is to eject the managerial corporation from its central role in the heart of the US economy
How has the 21st century gone so wrong?
The first quarter of this century will soon be behind us, and the record is grim
Musk and Milei belong to the same cult of disruption
The public sector needs reform – but the ‘creative destruction’ that can re-energise businesses risks leaving ordinary citizens in the lurch
