WEEKLY SELECTION

Democracy and our very capacity to communicate are under threat from a new generation of bots. A perspective from which population decline is a good thing. Political uncertainty risks costing France its status as a core EU asset. Three tips to win an argument. What makes a memory real? [...]

Population decline counts economically, and needs to be taken into account. Keynes' organic theory of society helps explain the enduring appeal of live performances. The exorbitant costs related to ports becoming pawns of geopolitics. What the future holds for today’s new borns. We can work on, even ‘work out’ our drive to seek positive emotions and the happiness that comes with them. [...]

If everything is a national security issue, nothing is a national security priority. Economic analysis might be better if underpinned by complexity theory rather than the search for equilibrium. Smart phones replacing smart parenting. Ageing spikes at 44 and 60 worth knowing about. Why today fascination with and affiliation to the Faustian tale is stronger than ever. [...]

Chinese economy stuck in a quagmire of overcapacity. Global food supplies on the point of radical transformation. The reasons behind pronatalism. Beware ‘moral fading’. Perfumes for dogs don’t smell good. [...]

A class of politically powerful ‘giant’ companies, not ‘big’ government, is quashing ‘animal spirits'. Political violence on the rise. The ‘secrets' of living longer are relatively simple and not secret, they're not big business either. But there are leading roles for AI and friends. [...]

Rising inequality - a danger to democracy. Vance as VP will implement the MAGA project 2025 to the letter. How China is remodelling itself as a tech, green giant. Open AI coming close to being able to reason like us. A list to indulge in - 100 best books of the 21st Century. [...]

India courting a ‘coalition of the unwilling’. Political unrest, wherever, is nearly always fuelled by economic anxieties. ’Stuckopia’ can be the pre-cursor of ‘dystopia’ - but it doesn’t have to be. A portrait of a president. A check list to rumble bad arguments. [...]

Frustration and a lack of hope are pushing young voters right. Industrial policies are back. Desperate resort to AI warfare in Ukraine is weaponising consumer technology in unprecedented ways. The devil is in the detail - Bernard Arnaud’s mantra for success. The lure of analogue activities to right the life-screen balance. [...]

How to dispel disappointment with democracy. Cultural shifts that are impacting birth rates - everywhere. The impact of the top 10 technologies of 2024. Top Israeli names decry the US Senate invitation to Netanyahu. Shedding new light on the importance of the brain’s nocturnal 'waste clearance system’. [...]