Category: Opinion

Malaysia Does Not View China as a Threat: Analyst Mahmud Ali at Davos of the East

“Unlike many other countries, the Malaysian PM’s perspective is so very different”, Dr. Syed Mahmud…

On Respecting the Amazon and What is Owed to the Planet

How many times do we have to use the tools of the civilization that wants…

Human Nature – Israelis and Palestinians

Looking at the issue from the point of view of Israel, Professor Kahneman says that…

How Asset Managers Came to Own Everything and You Failed to Notice

Mark Blyth and Brett Christophers discuss:

The Hidden History of Those Who Wrote the Christian Story

Candida Moss in Time: It is an unlikely success story. A first century religious leader named…

Welcome to Pakistan: Democracy’s Decay: The Senate’s Descent Into Deception

by Rabia Azfar Nizami in The Express Tribune: The democratic structure of governance rooted in…

The Problematic Past, Present, and Future of Inequality Studies

Branko Milanović’s century-spanning intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind…

Anyone Advocating Neoliberal Policies is Now Persona Non Grata in Washington, D.C.

Post-neoliberals are having a moment. If it continues for too long, the result could be…

Countering Growing Authoritarianism Requires a Robust Civil Society, Media & Academia

by Margee Ensign at IPS: (C)ountering growing authoritarianism requires a bigger, more interconnected ecosystem of…

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 Joumana Khatib at The New York Times:…

Why Isn’t Pakistan Exploiting Its Energy Assets?

Oil Analyst Syed Rashid Hussain (Toronto-based) shares his views on Pakistan’s energy assets and discusses…

The Drive for International Justice—and Why it Stalled

by Aryeh Neier at Ideas Letter: The Cold War derailed efforts to create a permanent…