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Men claim restrictions meant to ‘protect’ women from political hostilities; ECP can void polls in areas where women are prevented from exercising voting Elections in Pakistan: Perched on her traditional
Continue readingElections 2024: Educated Women in a Village Barred From Voting by Husbands
Rachel Kleinfeld at Persuasion: Last week, a widely-circulated analysis in the Financial Times confirmed what many researchers had long suspected: The ideological gap between men and women is growing. Over the past fifteen years,
Zack Beauchamp in Vox: On Monday, tens of millions across India celebrated the opening of the Ram Mandir — a huge new temple to Ram, one of Hinduism’s holiest figures, built
Continue readingNarendra Modi is Celebrating His Scary Vision for India’s Future
Diary of a CEO: Why social media preys on negativity; and 10 negative effects of social media on society 10 negative effects of social media on society Soniya Roy, consultant
Scott Peterson in The Christian Science Monitor: Rarely have so many Lebanese turned out on the streets to demand wholesale political change as when they began their self-declared “October Revolution” of
Tariq Ali, a writer, activist, and longtime public intellectual has authored many books and is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review. He contributes to The
Continue readingTariq Ali on Winston Churchill: “His Times, His Crimes”
Faisal Siddiqi writes in Dawn: Symbols as the soul of elections: A 12-member bench of the SC in the landmark ‘Benazir Bhutto symbols case’ (1989) had held, in essence, that
Mahir Ali in Dawn: AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel, envisages Vladimir Lenin in the presence of God, explaining why the state of the world
Continue readingLenin: What’s Left of the Revolutionary a Century after his Demise?
By Nick Corasaniti in The New York Times: In a presidential election year, no glowing rectangle in Iowa or New Hampshire is safe from an endless deluge of political ads.
For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in
Continue reading‘Clash of Empires’, ‘Clash of Civilizations’…and a Comment on ‘History’ Video
Jim Sleeper in Washington Monthly: Berkowitz’s must-read essay argues that the nature of war itself has changed enough that massive militaries are useless and that war itself is unwinnable by any “side.”
Continue readingWhen War Loses Its Power, ‘We Must Have a New Concept of the State’
Jan 4th 2024 in “The Economist”: His party is being unfairly muzzled, the former prime minister writes from prison. Today Pakistan is being ruled by caretaker governments at both the federal
Continue readingImran Khan Warns That Pakistan’s Election Could Be a Farce