Reports that America is over may be greatly exaggerated

by Rashmee

Posted on January 21, 2022


American ‘declinism’ is a favourite topic – in the US and everywhere else. So it …

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What does the Virginia election matter when the American establishment itself is rotten?

by Rashmee

Posted on November 2, 2021


The day of the November 2 Virginia gubernatorial election, I finally got round to …

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What might the big Biden controversy be? White French cuffs?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 23, 2021


/ POLITICS & AMERICA As usual, Ed Luce of the Financial Times put it best…

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America’s long, slow constitutional meltdown and the perils of literalism

by Rashmee

Posted on October 26, 2020


Ed Luce, the Financial Times’ US editor, recently asked what America can do to avert …

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From America to Saudi Arabia, textual sacralisation induces a unique fervour

by Rashmee

Posted on October 25, 2020


Just how sacralised has the American constitution become? Very. It would not be inaccurate to …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK