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I don’t know if it is still true, but the last I heard the official US war-fighting doctrine held that the nation must be prepared to engage two enemies at the same time.

Ngaire Woods on globalisation; Alison Wolf on the philosophy of education; and Michael Amherst on prison violence—readers respond to our October edition

We all are now witnessing what globalization is all about. We realize that our degree of interdependence is such that it is not only our shared humanity that makes us care about what’s happening to the population of Ukraine, but also our daily lives, sometimes in painful ways.

Russia continues to raze large sections of Ukraine, but that gives Kyiv a unique opening to build a better country — if somebody is willing to pay.

In Earth's version of Elysium, on a net basis, today’s savers outside of the US devote about 60% of their globally mobile savings towards funding the US current-account deficit and, through doing that, fund 50% of the US budget deficit.