Category: Opinion
Six Books You Didn’t Know Were Propaganda
The Economist on these books: ALL ART is propaganda”, wrote George Orwell in 1940, “but…
Feeding the World in 21st Century: ‘Cities Like Forests’
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi,…
Sham Elections
Faisal Siddiqi writes in Dawn: Symbols as the soul of elections: A 12-member bench of…
Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard
Carole Hooven in The Free Press: Since early December, the end of my 20-year career…
Lenin: What’s Left of the Revolutionary a Century after his Demise?
Mahir Ali in Dawn: AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel,…
Do Political Ads Even Matter Anymore?
By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing…
The Motorcycle Diaries: Should We Love Che Guevara
Portrait of “the insurgent” as a young man in The Motorcycle Diaries by Paul Berman in…
Isn’t There More Than Enough Wealth to Go Around?
by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes…
Social Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Healthcare Industry are Astounding
…and we’ve been ignoring them completely David Introcaso writes in The Hill: The social cost…
‘Clash of Empires’, ‘Clash of Civilizations’…and a Comment on ‘History’ Video
For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs…
When War Loses Its Power, ‘We Must Have a New Concept of the State’
Jim Sleeper in Washington Monthly: Berkowitz’s must-read essay argues that the nature of war itself has changed…