John E. Roemer for PS On Point

 [View this message in a web browser]( | [Forward to a friend]( [PS On Point]( PS On Point Weekly Newsletter Are the growing numbers of voters who prefer socialism to capitalism naive or misguided? According to Yale professor John E. Roemer, millennia of history and the growing consensus among modern evolutionary psychologists suggest that they are simply demonstrating forgotten common sense about human nature. [Read more](. LONG READ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2020 [What Is Twenty-First-Century Socialism?]( What Is Twenty-First-Century Socialism? By John E. Roemer The failures of communism in the twentieth century were an indictment not of socialism but of autocracy and central planning. After four decades of Gilded Age-style capitalism, it is time to give cooperative production and egalitarian distribution another try, this time through a democratic "sharing economy." [Read More]( [The Year Ahead 2020. With commentaries by Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee, Shoshana Zuboff, Francis Fukuyama, and more. ]( THE BIG PICTURE The Big Picture brings together 4-5 Project Syndicate commentaries on topics in the news - and on the deeper issues driving the news. [Will Trump Win Again?]( Will Trump Win Again? Having been acquitted by the US Senate in his impeachment trial, President Donald Trump can continue basking in the reflected glory of America’s longest economic expansion on record. Could that be enough to secure his re-election in November? [Read More]( FEATURED COMMENTARY [Embracing Europe’s Power]( Embracing Europe’s Power By Josep Borrell Europeans must deal with the world as it is, not as they wish it to be. And that means relearning the language of power and combining the European Union's resources in a way that maximizes their geopolitical impact. [Read More]( PREVIOUSLY IN PS ON POINT: LONG READ [Has the “Great Decoupling” Gone Viral?]( Has the “Great Decoupling” Gone Viral? By Kevin Rudd Nowadays, it is common to hear arguments warning of a bifurcation of the global economy into mutually exclusive American and Chinese spheres of influence. But, 18 months after the first shots in the Sino-American trade war were fired, the situation is more complicated than that, owing not just to economic realities and the new coronavirus outbreak, but also each country's political priorities. [Read More]( We’ve updated our Terms & Conditions, click [here]( to view them. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from this list](.