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This is the remit of The Cosmopolitan Globalist:
The Cosmopolitan Globalist strives to provide educated, erudite, and credible reporting and analysis from the world around, treating issues of global import. It is not nationalist, partisan, narrow-minded, or provincial. Our outlook is cosmopolitan and worldly.
We are attached to 18th-century Enlightenment ideals: rational inquiry, free speech, free trade, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional governance, the rule of law, and the separation of state from church, temple, and mosque. We wonder how these ideals will survive the digital age. We will deliver world-class coverage of consequential events even as we consider every issue from an informed local perspective. Our writers live in the countries from which they report. They understand local politics intimately. We will seek insight from academia and other experts: We value expertise. But we do not worship it.
This weekend, the Cosmopolitan Globalists are at your service. Use the comment section below to ask us any question that falls under our remit. We’ll choose the most qualified among us to answer, and we’ll answer it by Monday morning.
Go on. Ask us anything.
These are sensational questions--and I'm not sure why I'm surprised. After all, who would subscribe to this publication except the kind of person who'd ask these questions? But I confess that after hitting "send," I worried, "What if I throw a party and no one shows up?" I feared no one would ask anything. So waking up and seeing all these really good, serious questions is very gratifying--for the whole team. CG seems to have exactly the right readers. You're really out there, and you're genuinely interested in exactly the kinds of questions that interest us. This will keep us going for months.
Let me add a few questions that subscribers sent by email, presumably for anonymity:
"How does what y’all are doing differ from the mission of The Economist magazine?" (An excellent question because this weekend, we're working on our business plan, and that's part of what we're asking ourselves. Thank you, anonymous subscriber! We're on the job.)