Category: Politics
A Talking Point of the LUMS Founder Syed Babar Ali
An extract of interest from his talking points with Jugnu Mohsin at her program ‘Intikhab’…
“Better Angels of Our Nature”: For Abraham Lincoln it Was More than Words
Donald Nieman at The Conversation: Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, community leaders, clergy…
Podcast: Documenting the Rise of Nazism
Sonny Bunch at The Bulwark: I’m joined this week by Thomas Doherty, Brandeis professor and…
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…