BLOGS | Sam Beatson, Ph.D.

Once endangered, the venerable degree is emerging stronger from the pandemic

A Tesla bull debates a Tesla bear January 23, 2021

It is easy to make a positive and a negative case for the electric-car maker's $800bn market capitalisation

Sberbank’s second pirouette January 23, 2021

Can the former Soviet savings monopoly turn itself into a consumer-technology giant?

Chipmaking is being redesigned. Effects will be far-reaching January 23, 2021

The global semiconductor business is becoming at once more diverse and more concentrated. This brings opportunities—and risks

After the chaos of the Trump era, what can Joe Biden hope to achieve? January 23, 2021

Joe Biden faces multiple crises as he takes office

KAL’s cartoon January 23, 2021

How Joe Biden's executive orders are reversing Donald Trump's legacy January 21, 2021

The new US president has had a prolific first day in office. On his first day in office, US President Joe Biden repudiated the key policies of Trumpism through 17 executive orders, proclamations and memorandums. Through these, he sought to reject isolationism and direct the administration towards racial equality, the environment and a less […]

Joe Biden’s inauguration speech was the angriest ever, according to sentiment analysis January 21, 2021

New Statesman data analysis shows that the new president also put an unprecedented focus on public health and unity. Joe Biden’s inauguration on 20 January took place amid an unprecedented convergence of constitutional, socioeconomic and public health crises. As a sparse, mask-wearing crowd gathered to hear the new president's address, a large National Guard presence made […]

Call My Agent! captures the absurdity of the film industry January 21, 2021

The French series puts glamorous actors such as Charlotte Gainsbourg and Isabelle Huppert into farcical situations – while showing huge affection for the business. In the first episode of the new series of the brilliant French comedy drama Call My Agent!, the exceptionally chic Charlotte Gainsbourg, playing herself, has an out-of-character and rather cartoonish experience: she slips on a banana […]

Agora: a marketplace of ideas January 21, 2021

Welcome to the New Statesman’s philosophy column. Agora is a space for academics to draw on their education and experience in order to address contemporary social, political and cultural issues from a philosophical point of view. The series is moderated by Aaron James Wendland, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Massey College Toronto and co-editor of Heidegger on Technology and Wittgenstein […]