Eliane Glaser

Jul 10, 2024 | theguardian.com | Eliane Glaser

We need lessons from history now more than ever. Mothers with young children sit isolated in their own homes, oblivious to 1970s experiments in communal child-rearing. Broadcasters justify populist content on the grounds that it’s what “ordinary people” want, despite the rich 19th-century tradition of working-class intellectualism. The current Labour leadership’s adherence to strict “fiscal rules” disregards past successes of borrowing to invest and taxing the highest incomes at 90%.

May 18, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Eliane Glaser

I devoured three brilliant novels by Jennifer Egan last year: the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, Look at Me and The Keep. It was a weird time. I’d just been on a year’s maternity leave with my son; my father died; and I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. I felt pulled between optimism and pessimism, hope and dread. And when I read Egan’s novels, I could barely believe how much they chimed with my ambivalent state of mind.

Mar 27, 2024 | theguardian.com | Eliane Glaser

At the start of May 2020, the New York governor Andrew Cuomo was under pressure to relax Covid restrictions. “The faster we reopen, the lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost because the more lives lost,” he said in a televised address. “The question comes back to how much is a human life worth. That’s the real discussion that no one is admitting openly or freely, but we should.”That taboo question is at the centre of this riveting book.

Feb 14, 2024 | lrb.co.uk | Eliane Glaser

I have never owned a smartphone. The man in the shop couldn’t understand my refusal. ‘You get one free with your plan,’ he told me. I share the objections on questions of principle – the ubiquity of harmful content; the erosion of the social fabric – but more than that my response was visceral. I just didn’t want the thing in my hand. So I have a brick, and live in the 1990s.

Nov 15, 2023 | monocle.com | Ahmed Al Omran |Joanna Chiu |Scott Young |Eliane Glaser

LSubjects tackled by our essayists this issue: how the rise of AI might not have detrimental effects on human workers; why silicon chips might trigger a war in Asia; how Saudi Arabia needs to spare a thought for foreign start-ups; and the contradictions of self-help. 1Scott Young on ... How geopolitics will shape the manner in which AI will change the job market. Amid the uncertainty, there are things that we know and even some reasons to be cautiously optimistic.