Category: Opinion
26th Amendment: Drafted Elsewhere, Deliberated by a Select Few, Passed in Supreme Haste
Umair Javed in Dawn: (T)his amendment carries the element of being person-specific, at least in the current moment.
Tracy Calder on Why We Need to Keep Dreaming
‘The Germans have a phrase for the sense of panic many of us feel when a goal is within our reach: Torschlusspanik’.
‘Yin,’ ‘Yang’ and the ‘Dao’: “Xi Jinping Thought”
Xi has reversed the pragmatic “learn from practice” approach of Deng Xiaoping’s “reform and opening up”.
Are You a Platonist or an Aristotelian?
“Our culture today is likely to push you to be a Platonist…this is certainly convenient for businesses and political parties…but it can also…”
All History is Environmental History
…and that includes both environmental effects on societies and those societies’ impacts on the environment.
The Future of Political Science
Impotence Through Relevance? Faustian Bargains, Beyond Impact and the Future of Political Science.
Autocracy, Kleptocracy and the Threat to Democracy
The Dictators Who Want to Run the World provides an incisive exposition and analysis of how autocrats function in the world today…
Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky, the Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of America’s Hegemonic Foreign Policy.
Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” is Bad Art. But At Least It’s Art.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has inspired much reflection about creativity, commerce, the freedom of the artist and the state of Hollywood.
When Open Palm, Tree Stump and Carpet Spoke
by Arjumand Faisel at Gallery 6: After displaying 90 paintings on diverse subjects for the…
Marshall Plans
At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse”
Random Thought: ‘I Don’t Mind’ By Irshad Salim
I shook hand with a mascot at a the Centaurus Mall in Islamabad one day….