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Janan Ganesh

International politics commentator

Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.
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  • April 4 2026
    Life & Arts
    Populists will regret doing God
    A movement founded on loucheness is making an electorally risky turn towards religion
    Janan Ganesh
    Donald Trump sits at his desk in the Oval Office, eyes closed and hands clasped in front of him. He is surrounded by a group of mainly men but also two women in brightly coloured jackets. They too have their eyes closed, their heads bowed in prayer and are laying hands on Trump’s shoulders.
  • April 1 2026
    US foreign policy
    Trump learns that not everyone has a price
    The great cynic did not expect Iran to fight out of conviction
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of sunglasses with the dollar sign on the broken spectacles
  • March 21 2026
    Life & Arts
    The new old world
    A Gulf war, an oil spike, a tense Europe: the 20th century is back
    Janan Ganesh
  • March 18 2026
    Nuclear proliferation
    How the world learned to love the bomb
    Nuclear proliferation could be the way of the future
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of a nuclear bomb with a red lipstick imprint of a kiss on it
  • March 14 2026
    Life & Arts
    Donald Trump, globalist
    It should not have taken the Iran war to finish the idea that he is ‘isolationist’
    Janan Ganesh
    Donald Trump looks out of a window from inside Marine One as it sits on the South Lawn of the White House.
  • March 11 2026
    Nigel Farage
    Farage forgets which country he aims to govern
    In domestic and foreign policy, the British right’s vulnerability is its America-worship
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of a floral fine china porcelain tea cup with a logo in capital letters reading USA in the colours of the US flag.
  • March 7 2026
    Dubai
    We’ll always have Dubai
    Why the newly endangered city will endure
    Janan Ganesh
    Aerial view of Dubai with dense buildings, a winding waterway, and the Burj Khalifa skyscraper rising in the distance.
  • March 4 2026
    Middle East war
    Be glad of Starmer’s caution over Iran
    Bellicose critics of the UK prime minister have learnt nothing from the recent past
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of someone in a suit and smart shoes doing the tightrope along some barbed wire
  • February 28 2026
    Geopolitics
    The one good monopoly
    Liberals should favour competition in all things but the superpower game
    Janan Ganesh
  • February 25 2026
    Geopolitics
    How war stopped working
    Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan — the story of the century so far is the ineffectiveness of force
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of a green melting toy soldier.
  • February 21 2026
    Social Media
    What social media gave us
    The bans on it are right but it added to the intellectual life of the world
    Janan Ganesh
    A montage of two photos of Orson Welles in 1938, left photo shows him behind a set of microphones labelled ‘CBS’.
  • February 18 2026
    Populism
    Maga will regret embracing Europe’s hard right
    Nationalists on the continent have historically opposed America more than anything else
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of a postcard reading Greetings from Washington D.C, set on fire on one corner.
  • February 14 2026
    Life & Arts
    Liberals should mourn the passing world
    Why apologise for what was the most successful international order in history?
    Janan Ganesh
    People relax and take photos in the infinity pool at Marina Bay Sands, overlooking Singapore’s business district at sunset.
  • February 11 2026
    Keir Starmer
    Britain should pray that Starmer survives
    The country did not and would not vote for the Labour left
    Janan Ganesh
    The door from Number 10 Downing Street sits against a red background with various knives and arrows sticking out of the wood
  • February 7 2026
    Life & Arts
    Mandelson and the two elites
    What the public sees as a ruling class is divided against itself
    Janan Ganesh
    Lord Mandelson stands beside a transparent box filled with pretend money, speaking to reporters during an outdoor campaign event.
  • February 4 2026
    UK politics
    Britain can’t ignore Europe and China at the same time
    Tory criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s foreign policy shows the party is unserious
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of a British bulldog with a blindfold tied around its eyes
  • January 31 2026
    Film
    The Hamnet wars
    The cynics are wrong about a film that will outlast our era
    Janan Ganesh
    Paul Mescal, as William Shakespeare, stands onstage touching a painted forest backdrop in a theatre set.
  • January 28 2026
    Donald Trump
    Why Taco is a problem for Europe
    The continent needs a sense of crisis in order to change, and Donald Trump keeps it just short of that
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of the US flagpole piercing through the EU golden stars on a blue background.
  • January 24 2026
    Life & Arts
    A liberal in illiberal times
    Reflections on a decade that was less traumatic than it promised to be
    Janan Ganesh
    A man in a suit stands with a rolling suitcase in an empty airport terminal, watching a plane take off through large windows.
  • January 21 2026
    US foreign policy
    Always beware a declining superpower
    Even under normal leadership, a status-anxious US would be lashing out
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of statue of liberty holding a red axe in her hand.
  • January 17 2026
    Life & Arts
    The right will want a United States of Europe
    Conservatives will come to see a unified continent as the only defence against America and China
    Janan Ganesh
    A close-up of a suit lapel with a broken pin badge, one half showing the Union flag and the other the EU flag.
  • January 14 2026
    UK politics
    How Nigel Farage gets away with it
    His two great liabilities, Brexit and Donald Trump, are unmentionable in British politics
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of two darts with bent tips, one with a feather bearing the EU flag and the word ‘Brexit’; the other with the US flag and the word ‘Maga’
  • January 10 2026
    Life & Arts
    The myth of ‘mindset’
    As a key to success, mentality gets too much attention and talent too little
    Janan Ganesh
  • January 7 2026
    US politics & policy
    How Trump became just another Republican president
    His enthusiasm for big business and foreign intervention is more Reaganite than populist
    Janan Ganesh
    Illustration of a red Maga hat with three different Republican party badges on the front.
  • December 20 2025
    Life & Arts
    The case for denial
    In a darkening world, burying one’s head in the sand is a rational strategy
    Janan Ganesh
    Star-shaped Christmas lights hang above a crowded Oxford Street as pedestrians cross beneath the decorations at dusk.
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