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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
18 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. Wanted: Vladimir Putin
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    Wanted: Vladimir Putin

    Mar 31, 2023 Antara Haldar explains why the International Criminal Court’s indictment is more than just a symbolic victory.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Tax the Rich to Save the Planet

    Owen Gaffney argues that reducing economic inequality is the key to strengthening democracy and mitigating climate change.
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    Is Globalization Over?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. explains why reports of the death of humanity's interdependence are greatly exaggerated.
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    Putin and Trump in the Dock?

    Jack Goldsmith explains the risks associated with pursuing criminal prosecutions against high-profile political figures.
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    The Great Revision

    Joschka Fischer examines the broader geopolitical restructuring that was triggered by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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    Why Inflation Persists

    Lars P. Feld

    What "Team Transitory" has missed in the inflation debate is that inflation tends to become persistent because of second-round effects. Not only have producer prices risen over the past year or so, but they also have not yet been fully passed through the value chain.

    navigates the complex array of factors that give rise to one of the biggest problems in macroeconomics.
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    Wanted: Vladimir Putin

    Antara Haldar explains why the International Criminal Court’s indictment is more than just a symbolic victory.
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    Here We Go Again?

    Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.

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    The Coming Doom Loop

    Nouriel Roubini warns that liquidity support will not be enough to prevent a deeper financial crisis and economic downturn.
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    Crises of Uncertainty

    Harold James fears the consequences of policymakers’ continual revision of economic and financial governance rules.

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