This appears to have caught the eye of one of their editors, who invited me to do an opinion piece for them. 5-700 words, with a "strong thesis" and optionally some concrete policy proposals as well.
So which important bit of Conventional Wisdom can we deconstruct in less than 700 words?
Security? Economics? Terrorism? The transition to a multipolar world? Something else?
Presumably it would be prudent to give them something that has relevance on both sides of the Atlantic, but other than that I think it's a pretty open barrel of fish.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
What do you feel you know a lot about? "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Well, it's your op-ed. Have fun! "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Specifically, a system that has as its first and final objective to improve the standard of living of Joe Median in the countries on our borders. Screw GDP, screw trade volumes, screw Wall Street, screw profits. Look at the literacy rates, life expectancy and incomes of the median percentile. If they are going down, you are doing something wrong.
That goes for our countries too, but it goes double for our trading partners. Partly because focusing on GDP and profits for our companies at the expense of the man on the street will create antipathy among the very people we need to convince that we are not their enemies, and partly because doing so will not solve the security issues:
Insufficiently fine-meshed health care that leads to border-crossing diseases, insufficient environmental security that leads to pollution of our common bodies of water, insufficient human well being that leads to political instability. That kind of things.
