Best of BS Opinion: Trade gambits and the things we have to let go

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

There’s a certain hopefulness in human nature that’s hard to shake. Like when you play a flute in front of a rabbit, convinced it will rise on hind legs and sway, even though it just blinks, twitches an ear, and goes back to nibbling grass. We repeat this pattern in politics, diplomacy, trade, and even our personal choices, expecting a choreography that never comes, but performing anyway because the tune feels too good to stop. Let’s dive in. 

Kenneth Rogoff sees this in Donald Trump’s second term, a presidency that, six months in, has ticked off its wish list