PRINCETON — The rapid march of artificial intelligence is not only disrupting conventional notions of work. It is also changing the essence of human identity.

PRINCETON — The historian Christopher Clark’s profound and illuminating new book, “Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848-1849”, is a masterly demonstration of how remote historical periods can sometimes speak with urgency to the present.

 WARSAW — Globalisation brings the world together through the movement of people, things, ideas, money and much else.

 PRINCETON — Today’s inflationary surge calls for reevaluating the politics of public debt.

PRINCETON — The collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the mesmerising rise and fall of its founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, is only the most recent episode encapsulating the perils of financial innovation.

PRINCETON — Capitalism relies on competition. In practice, however, this core principle is often violated, because ambitious capitalists will naturally seek to eliminate competition and secure a commanding market position from which they can keep new would-be competitors at bay.

 PRINCETON — A relatively small-scale banking crisis has been sufficient to demonstrate the fragility of multilateralism today.

PRINCETON — After nine years of war, and one year of intensified fighting following Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s future remains murky. In the West, the current debate is focused largely on the matter of weapons shipments to Ukraine.

PRINCETON — Our world has become both confusing and confused. The international economy works well, but the political economy is mired in hostility toward markets, frustration at globalisation, and skepticism about growth.