Janan Ganesh

The advanced age of leaders is a destabilising force in international politics

Attempts to read grand strategy into the US president’s doings have run their course

Small countries have the best outcomes, while the few giants shape the globe

Maybe politics, which for decades has been dysfunctional in the US, do not matter that much

It isn’t China or Russia that will dominate the post-American world

The UK is cosmopolitan because it doesn’t overthink

Complex and unreliable, the wine region resembles the experience of living

Portable private sound is one of the most liberating inventions of the past century

The West will have to make far worse moral compromises as the centre of global power creeps elsewhere

Courted by superpowers, the region is where Westerners should try their luck