Paris Is Burning

The Sunday newsletter (this week on Friday) from Project Syndicate. [View this message in a web browser.]( [Project Syndicate]( FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2017 [Paris Is Burning]( This week at [Project Syndicate]( Laurence Tubiana argues that the US, already feeling the effects of climate change and falling behind in the development of green technology, is likely to suffer the most from Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the country from the Paris climate agreement, Joseph Stiglitz excoriates the US president for his attempted destruction of the post-war system of global governance, George Soros explains why today's European Union needs both salvation and radical reinvention, and more. Join the conversation. [Donald Trump's Historic Mistake]( [Laurence Tubiana]( considers Donald Trump's abandonment of the Paris climate agreement a threat mainly to the US. [Trump's Rogue America]( [Joseph Stiglitz]( advises the rest of the world that the time for reasoned debate with the US president is over. [Standing Up for Europe]( [George Soros]( sees hope for the EU's revival emanating from countries where European values are most imperiled. [Defending Academic Freedom in a Populist Age]( [America's Broken Democracy]( [Jeffrey Sachs]( highlights the agenda of the corporate interests that have all but captured the US political system. [The Divergence of US and British Populism]( [Anatole Kaletsky]( contrasts Britons' passive assent to populist upheaval with Americans' resistance to Donald Trump. [Vive l’Euro?]( [Lucrezia Reichlin]( cautions that while EU optimism has returned, the bloc’s future depends on eurozone fiscal reform. [A Turning Point for Iran?]( [Christopher Hill]( sees a country on the brink of change – and many who would pull it back. [Donald Trump's Ancien Régime]( [Yair Mintzker]( argues that Louis XIV is a better historical analogue for the US president than Hitler or Mussolini. [Trump's Magic Budget]( [Carmen Reinhart]( thinks the rosy forecast for GDP growth may be the least of the White House fiscal plan's problems. [Jobs in the Age of Artificial Intelligence]( [Simon Johnson]( & [Jonathan Ruane]( offer three reasons why, despite the march of automation, the employment apocalypse is on hold. From the Archive [Fast-Tracking Climate Action]( [Achim Steiner]( & [Christiana Figueres]( call for urgent action to cut short-lived climate pollutants like black carbon and methane. [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](