Category: Politics

TGIF: The Week Unburdened by the Week That Has Been

By Suzy Weiss at The Free Press: Biden dropped out: Six years ago emotionally, but…

Civility Won’t Save Us

Dante Stewart in Time Magazine: America currently finds itself in a storm. A dreadful, at times unbelievable…

Eitan Hersh on the Perils of Political Hobbyism

Yascha Mounk at his own Substack: Eitan Hersh is Professor of Political Science at Tufts…

Nadeem F. Paracha: Pakistan’s “Useful Idiots”

by Nadeem F. Paracha at Dawn: Numerous books have been written on Islam in Pakistan….

The Kamala Gamble

Michael Baharaeen at The Liberal Patriot: Joe Biden rocked American politics over the weekend with…

Martin Luther King and Philosophical Personalism

by Bennett Gilbert at Aeon: On 25 March 1965, the planes out of Montgomery, Alabama…

Vlog: Why Dhaka is on Fire

An opinion on the complexities behind the recent riots in Dhaka and the historical and…

We Smashed Up the World: On Noam Chomsky

by Marie Snyder at 3 Quarks Daily: Noam Chomsky was rumoured to have left us…

Strategically Minting New Citizens: lessons from Rome & the US

Razib Khan at Unsupervised Learning: Part 1 of 2 Ours is an age of flux…

Bangladesh: “The Quota Movement is Simply the Tip of the Iceberg”

Shahidul Alam at New Age/Northeast Bylines: It would be a mistake to see this as…

Solzhenitsyn Understood the West and Predicted its Future With Frightening Precision

Gary Saul Morson in Commentary: Western intellectuals expected that novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once safely in…

The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors

Victoria Gierok at Project Syndicate: Twenty-five years ago, the euro was introduced, in virtual form,…