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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
17 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Antara Haldar, Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, a former fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

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  1. Ron DeSantis’s Intellectual Apartheid
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    Ron DeSantis’s Intellectual Apartheid

    Feb 27, 2023 Antara Haldar considers what is at stake in the American right’s new education-focused culture war.

  2. Davos Man Has a People Problem
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    Davos Man Has a People Problem

    Jan 31, 2023 Antara Haldar suspects that the socially “disembedded” economic logic of globalization has gone as far as it can go.

  3. Whose Rule of Law?
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    Whose Rule of Law?

    Dec 27, 2022 Antara Haldar points out that the developed West can no longer take this basic political institution for granted.

  4. Killing Twitter
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    Killing Twitter

    Dec 1, 2022 Antara Haldar explains what Elon Musk fundamentally misunderstands about the platform – and about free speech.

  5. Libertarian Lettuce
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    Libertarian Lettuce

    Oct 26, 2022 Antara Haldar marvels at how quickly a highly influential philosophy wilted when put into practice.

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    Hell in the Holy Land

    Carl Bildt fears that the stage is set for another major violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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    The Fed Must Not Flinch

    Michael R. Strain urges the US central bank to continue raising interest rates, despite signs of financial-sector fragility.
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    Reimagining Development

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that grassroots engagement and social enterprise are crucial to achieving countries' aspirations.
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    What the World Bank Can Do About Climate Change

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg explains how the institution can maximize its contribution to the global net-zero agenda.
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    Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy

    Richard Haass explains what caused the Ukraine war, urges the West to scrutinize its economic dependence on China, proposes ways to reverse the dangerous deterioration of democracy in America, and more.
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    Price Stability vs. Financial Stability?

    Willem H. Buiter

    If the US Federal Reserve raises its policy interest rate by as much as is necessary to rein in inflation, it will most likely further depress the market value of the long-duration securities parked on many banks' balance sheets. So be it.

     thinks central banks can achieve both, despite the occurrence of a liquidity crisis amid high inflation.
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Jeffrey Frankel

    The half-century since the official demise of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates has shown the benefits of what replaced it. While some may feel nostalgic for the postwar monetary system, its collapse was inevitable, and what looked like failure has given rise to a remarkably resilient regime.

     explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.
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    What Do America’s Spies Really Think About China?

    Kent Harrington thinks the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment should have delved deeper on the issue.
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    Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis

    Quentin Grafton, et al. see three overarching priorities for the first global water conference in almost a half-century.

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