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Watches & Jewellery
How Rolex status symbols help fund new artists
...the programme, which originally featured five pairs of mentors and protégés, including British conductor Sir Colin Davis matched with Spain’s Josep Caballé Domenech and American theatre director Robert Wilson...
July 7, 2023
ReviewFT Books Essay
How America picks its battles
...America’s journey from Thomas Jefferson’s aversion to foreign entanglements to its post-1945 restructuring of the international order was stuttering and painful....
January 25, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Letter
Letter: We have forgotten what we are trying to preserve
...Even the unbelievers among Enlightenment statesmen acknowledged their debt to what Jefferson called the “pure and sublime system of morality” of the Gospels....
May 12, 2020
Coronavirus
Coronavirus shortages prompt Australia to bring manufacturing home
...Tim Wilson, a backbench MP, warned this week that post-coronavirus protectionism would “make our nation and people poorer”....
April 14, 2020
Letter
Slash aviation emissions by staying on the ground
...David A McM Wilson Cambridge, UK...
May 5, 2019
FT CollectionsClimate emergency
Aviation industry is stepping up to its climate challenges
...A McM Wilson, Cambridge, UK...
April 30, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Janan Ganesh
The coming alliance of populists and greens
...But it has been a part of American thought since Thomas Jefferson envisioned an agrarian republic. Woodrow Wilson, no less than Nixon, paired backward social views with an environmental conscience....
October 9, 2019
The FT ViewGeopolitics
Past battles should not inflame present disputes
...President Donald Trump rhetorically asked whether statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson should also be knocked down because they were both slave owners in their day....
August 18, 2017
Garland Tucker
Changing the name of Yale college erases our complex history
...There have been demands that the University of Virginia banish its patron Thomas Jefferson, a famous slaveholder, from the campus....
February 16, 2017
Philip Delves Broughton
The venerable park service shows America at its best
...But it was not until 1916 that Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service. Its first leader was Stephen Mather, a patrician businessman who made his fortune in detergent....
August 20, 2016
Philanthropy
The trouble with legacies
...Even Thomas Jefferson, a founding father no less, has suffered the indignity of being plastered with Post-it notes at the College of William & Mary and the University of Missouri....
March 9, 2016
Edward Luce
The rise of liberal intolerance in America
...Others, such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were guiltier. Should they be judged solely on that? Winston Churchill was an unabashed imperialist....
November 29, 2015
ObituaryLife & Arts
Blues legend BB King dies at 89
...At 12 King got his first guitar, teaching himself and trying to copy Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lonnie Johnson....
May 15, 2015
Life & Arts
More theatre reviews and previews
...The Jefferson of the title is Thomas Jefferson and the story is that of a young Quaker who finds his beliefs conflicted when he both befriends Jefferson and falls in love with a runaway slave woman who is...
February 6, 2015
Legal services
Fight for a bigger slice of the legal pie pays off
...Previously an associate at Wilson Sonsini, a Palo Alto law firm, Mr Irvin joined Tencent in 2010 to build a legal team that now has 128 lawyers on its strength....
June 11, 2014
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewLife & Arts
The Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
...He lived to see Wilson cement his reforms with the creation of the Federal Reserve and the progressive income tax....
November 8, 2013
Fund management
Dark cloud over Detroit has silver lining for investors
...A related ruling in the US’s second-biggest municipal bankruptcy, in Alabama’s Jefferson County, similarly eased bondholders’ bankruptcy burden by holding that future ratepayers and future taxpayers could...
December 15, 2013
Life & Arts
Japan’s rite of spring
...Matthew Wilson is managing director of Clifton Nurseries in London...
March 22, 2013
FT Magazine
Taking America back
...What we are doing in this country will make Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin roll over in their graves.” It is a phrase that crops up again and again....
October 29, 2010
News in-depthCapital markets
Local difficulties
...That leaves Jefferson County, Alabama, as worldwide poster child for soured swaps and nefarious relationships in the municipal bond market....
August 23, 2009
ReviewLife & Arts
America
...Wilson gives us the Fourteen Points. We shall see.”...
January 10, 2009
News in-depthThe Big Read
A tragedy of errors
...Bush, America’s 43rd president, quoted America’s third, Thomas Jefferson, who said: “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”...
January 18, 2009
News in-depthThe Big Read
A chronic condition
...Many trace an improbable win to an electrifying speech he gave three months earlier at the Jefferson-Jackson annual dinner in Iowa in which he skilfully depicted Mrs Clinton as a discredited prisoner of...
October 11, 2009
Life & Arts
‘I’ve learnt not to compromise’
...The Playboy Club on Jefferson was just outside my window – maybe eight blocks away or so....
June 7, 2008
Global Economy
Florida schools struggle to pay teachers
...That decision left hundreds of local government entities across Florida – like Jefferson County’s Hal Wilson – unable to withdraw their cash and facing a financial crisis....
December 1, 2007

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