The Globalist

Two age-old questions: What is travel? And why do we do it?

Three large Asian nations — China, India and Indonesia — are polyphonic and geographically diverse. They all made different choices on their national language.

How Japan’s culture of overwork and lack of personal space makes life even more difficult for men than women.

The American language becomes inclusive, gender neutral and racialized, as well as ugly and inaccurate.

Why the Japan-India relationship refuses to take off.

Trauma and historical memory in Germany and Indonesia.

Why do we Germans learn so little from very relevant Asian countries in fighting the pandemic?

The problem of abuse of women in India will only be solved by changing entrenched culture norms that allow the abuse and degradation of women.

Over the last 5,000 years, what has made the concept of debt so strangely powerful?

Reforms proposed after the fintech scandal will not be enough to fix a shaky banking sector.