Moderation Is Different From Censorship
Scott Alexander in Astral Codex Ten: This is a point I keep seeing people miss in the debate about social media. Moderation is the normal business activity of ensuring that your
Racism Row: How Asia and Africa Shaped Civilization
When Josep Borrell spoke of ‘privilege’, did that mean ‘white’ privilege? By Tariq A. Al Maeena at Gulf News: As a child growing up in the family home, I was
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Nature is Disappearing: Here’s Why it Matters and What to Do About it
Perhaps the clearest role the U.S. can play in halting and reversing global nature loss by 2030 is in the assistance it provides to those countries where biodiversity is richest
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Why Policing is and Will Continue to Remain Political in Pakistan
Because policing has been treated as a project of political ordering and disordering, it allows for the retention and abuse for colonial frameworks. ‘All Policing is Political’ Zoha Waseem at
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History Shows That Free Trade Can’t Buy World Peace
One of the Most Famous Ideas in Economics Is Wrong Jacob Soll in Politico: One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that free markets bring peace between countries.
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Smoke screen ka Pakistan ki Siyasat mein Kardar kya
سموک اسکرین کا پاکستان کی سیاست میں کردار کیا اپنے الفاظ کو بلند کرو، آواز نہیں. یہ بارش ہے جو پھول اگاتی ہے، گرج نہیں کرتی – رومی “Raise your
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Future Knowledges and the Dilemmas of Decolonization
In this talk, philosopher Achille Mbembe (Africa is a Country) considers the possibilities of a new planetary configuration of the human and the humanities, in light of what he calls
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Karachi is Volatile, But London is Bland
Kamila Shamsie’s new novel, “Best of Friends” chosen as a book of 2022 by The Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Molly Young’s review in The New York Times: The
Why Iranian Women are Risking Everything By Burning Their Hijabs
Jonathan Guyer in Vox: It was not an isolated incident of police violence in Iran. But the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody last week has captured the country’s attention. Amini
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Servants No Longer: On Civic Friendship
Chris Griswold in The Comment: Aristotle uses the term “civic friendship” to describe the bonds that emerge from a sense of common purpose in a shared political project. “Citizens are
Our Shambled National Economy and Bogus Lifestyle
During the period covering last 10 years, following TEN major reasons of serious deterioration in a family’s financial condition have critically been noticed: –Everyone in family owns smartphone.-Vacations are taken
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US is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality
Kathleen Frydl in The Conversation: The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country