August 2024
Kamala-mania is an American rerun of Jacinda-mania
The hard reset of the 2024 race and irrational exuberance for the new Democrat nominee has a 2017 precedent in New Zealand.
October 2020
Why Jacinda Ardern is just like a Latin American populist
Lacking an economic recovery plan, the policies of the re-elected Prime Minister risk hurting the ordinary New Zealanders they aim to help.
June 2020
America is boiling without a safety valve
The danger is a combination of protest and the devaluing by Donald Trump of election processes that let off steam. Expect a contest on the streets to continue.
January 2020
Corbyn’s rise and fall symptomatic of social democracy’s broader crisis
Left parties have lost the battle of ideas and will keep losing elections if they continue the anachronistic drive for punitively high taxes and big government.