The White House Crack-Up - Elizabeth Drew

The Sunday newsletter from Project Syndicate. [View this message in a web browser.]( [Project Syndicate]( SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017 [Inside the North Korea Maze]( This week at [Project Syndicate]( Elizabeth Drew examines the danger of a US president bouncing from one crisis to another, Kent Harrington exposes the profound damage Donald Trump's intelligence disclosure to Russian officials will likely do to US national security, Yanis Varoufakis cautions Emmanuel Macron not to worsen the deflationary cycle that is Marine Le Pen's greatest ally, and more. Join the conversation. [The White House Crack-Up]( [Elizabeth Drew]( bears witness to the seemingly inexorable unraveling of Donald Trump's presidency. [Trump's Loose Lips and America’s Intelligence Relationships]( [Kent Harrington]( considers the long-term impact of the US president's sharing of sensitive information with Russia. [Congratulations, President Macron – Now We Oppose You]( [Yanis Varoufakis]( explains why the best way to keep Marine Le Pen at bay is to oppose France's new president. [Adaptive Markets]( From Princeton University Press [Adaptive Markets]( Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought By Andrew W. Lo Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, [Adaptive Markets]( shows that the theory of market efficiency isn't wrong but merely incomplete. When markets are unstable, investors react instinctively, creating inefficiencies for others to exploit. Lo's [new paradigm]( explains how evolution shapes behavior and markets at the speed of thought. [The Varieties of Populist Experience]( [Robert Skidelsky]( asks what type of politics will prevail in Europe after Macron-style neoliberalism fails yet again. [Do You Want to Be a Cyborg?]( [Agata Sagan]( & [Peter Singer]( defend people's right to implant cognition-enhancing devices in their brains. [Russia's Cold War Habit]( [Vladislav Inozemtsev]( blames Russian leaders for the third major confrontation with the West since the nineteenth century. [Brexit or Breakup?]( [Carl Bildt]( is pessimistic about the coming talks, with no new UK-EU relationship likely to be reached by 2019. [Taking Eurozone Growth Seriously]( [Jim O'Neill]( urges financial analysts to consider some optimistic scenarios for eurozone economic performance. [Germany Will Lose if Macron Fails]( [Hans-Helmut Kotz]( underscores the long-term benefits of cooperation with France's new president. [Restoring Competition in the Digital Economy]( [Dalia Marin]( worries that unchecked market concentration will continue to benefit capital at labor's expense. From the Archive [Trump's Middle East Supporters]( [Barak Barfi]( observes that the US president may be more popular than presumed in parts of the Islamic world. [Support Press Freedom]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to nearly 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. This newsletter is a service of [project-syndicate.org](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from this list](