The latest ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization ended not with compromise, but with drift. No agreement on e-commerce tariffs. No meaningful progress on institutional reform. What should have been a forum for coordination instead became a reflection of fragmentation. It was, in many ways, a fitting conclusion to a decade that has steadily eroded the foundations of the global trading system. A Decade of Disruption The unraveling unfolded through a sequence of s

The recent speech by Mark Carney , titled “ Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path ,” is best read not as an idiosyncratic policy statement but as a representative document of an intellectual tradition that has reached its limits. The speech articulates, with clarity and restraint, the worldview of late neoliberal technocracy: economically literate, institutionally cautious, normatively earnest—yet historically thin and politically incomplete. In that sense, it deserves to b