Category: Opinion
After Hamas & Syria Now Pakistan’s Turn?
From Dawn: (Recent) developments do not inspire confidence about the future of Pakistan-US ties. Plus, a podcast on a perspective post-Syria…
Once They Were My Captors, Now They Rule Syria
A personal essay on regime change in Syria: “I’ve spent the past few days watching my former captors’ wildest dreams come true.”
What the Law Supposes
I am not a judge, but the principles that apply to judicial and arbitral decision making are essentially the same.
The Killing of United Healthcare’s CEO in New York City
Response to CEO killing reveals antipathy toward health insurers − but entire patchwork system is to blame for ill feeling
How the Philosopher Charles Taylor Would Heal the Ills of Modernity
A hard thinker to pigeonhole, Taylor has long been a mainstay of Canada’s social-democratic left; he helped found the New Democratic Party,
Pakistan: Comprador Nation
Ammar Ali Jan: Since 1958, US backing for the army –seen as an essential counterweight to Soviet influence –has made the country’s political sphere hostile for democratic forces.
Noam Chomsky at 96
The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence…
Democracy Disconnected: The Power Struggle in Pakistan
by Irshad Salim: This morning as I shared my views in a WhatsApp Forum: “The…
The Eternal NOW
Poets and mystics had come to realize that Eternity exists outside the constraints of time and matter. It wasn’t some infinite future paradise.
The Philosophical Debate on ‘TIME’ Continues: A Century Later
Matyáš Moravec at SciTech Daily: Is Time an Illusion? How Logic Challenges Our Understanding of Reality.
The Three Circles of Influence
Many people are left behind in tasks that do not come under their control, and…
This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time
Karl Marx explained the 19th Century. Wolfgang Streeck, the German maverick thinker, is explaining the 21st.