Tunku Varadarajan
Wall Street Journal
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Tunku:
French Soccer Sets a Meritocratic Example at the World Cup
Its teammates may not “look like France,” but they play like winners. → Read More
Britain’s Prime Minister Is India’s Pride
Meanwhile leftists at home dismiss Rishi Sunak as inauthentic. → Read More
Two Books Decry the Uyghur Tragedy in China
In a remote part of Central Asia, an entire people is losing its land, its language, its freedom. → Read More
Build a Charter School, Get Sued by the Teachers Union
Vertex Academies is set to open next month on the old Blessed Sacrament campus in the Bronx. Its founders, Ian Rowe and Joyanet Mangual, are confident they’ll beat back the legal challenge. → Read More
‘The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy’ Review: The Ascent to Hyperpower
For some time, there was a Jeffersonian aversion to projecting power beyond America’s borders. It was emphatically overcome. → Read More
Trump Looms Over the New York Primary to Face Kathy Hochul
Unpopular in the state, the ex-president has refrained from endorsing any of the four GOP candidates for governor. → Read More
Jan. 6 and the Unhealthy Nostalgia for Watergate
Michael Barone says Nixon’s scandal was a historical watershed and had a baleful influence on politics and journalism that still bedevils us today. → Read More
Can America’s Cities Make a Post-Pandemic Comeback?
America’s leading economist of urban life says a return to the workplace is crucial, especially for the young. → Read More
The Roe v. Wade ‘Aberration’ and America’s Civic Crisis
Judge Douglas Ginsburg was Reagan’s second choice after Robert Bork’s nomination failed. He says criticism of Justice Alito’s draft opinion reflects constitutional ignorance. → Read More
‘The Doctor Who Would Be King’ Review: Take Your Medicine, or Else
In a remote colonial outpost, a doctor-administrator decides to transform society as well as heal the sick. Whips are involved. → Read More
Trans Sports Give Utah Republicans a Ticket to Override
GOP Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of H.B. 11 allowed everyone to claim the high ground on a controversial issue. → Read More
‘When Magic Failed’ Review: Civilization’s Ambassador
Fouad Ajami’s posthumous memoir revisits the vivid, difficult life in Lebanon that shaped his writing and thought. → Read More
America Needs a Return to First Principles
How to revive U.S. vitality and confidence? Economists John Cogan and Kevin Warsh offer a way to think about what made the country prosperous. Pay attention to the ‘three I’s’—ideas, individuals and institutions. → Read More
‘Diplomatic Gifts’ Review: Pandas and Friendly Relations
In hopes of fostering goodwill, all sorts of things have been given by one head of state to another: diamonds, exotic animals, fancy neckties. → Read More
For FedEx Founder Fred Smith, the Sky Is Still the Limit
Memphis, Tenn. In March 2020, at age 75, Fred Smith should have been winding down his legendary career as CEO of FedEx . Then Covid-19 hit, everyone’s life turned upside down, and the company he founded had to save the world—“literally,” he says, with no small amount of passion. → Read More
‘A Brief History of Equality’ Review: Flattening the Wealth Curve
Thomas Piketty attempts to lure readers unable to scale the mountain of ‘Capital.’ → Read More
A Veteran Putin Foe Sizes Up the Response to the War in Ukraine
Bill Browder, the man behind the Magnitsky Act, says he’s surprised and delighted with the strength of the West’s sanctions: ‘I was a lone voice for 10 years.’ → Read More
‘The Vortex’ Review: A Storm of Political Violence
In 1970, a massive cyclone raced up the Bay of Bengal, toward millions trying to survive a man-made cataclysm. → Read More
The West’s Economic War Plan Against Russia
After invading Ukraine, Putin is now president of ‘North Korea on the Volga,’ says Edward Fishman, an expert on sanctions. → Read More
The Two Blunders That Caused the Ukraine War
Robert Service, a leading historian of Russia, says Moscow will win the war but will lose the peace and fail to subjugate Ukraine. How Putin could be deposed. → Read More