Anti-imperial cooperation
After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the initially cordial bilateral relationship deteriorated rapidly. With the fall of the Marcos Perez Jimenez dictatorship and the rise of Romulo…
Monroe rebranded in Caracas
When President James Monroe articulated his doctrine in 1823, European powers viewed it as a defensive warning that the Western Hemisphere was no longer open for colonial expansion. The doctrine…
The eventless 21st century
IN 1925, Mussolini consolidated his dictatorship with a major speech before parliament, while Hitler published the first volume of Mein Kampf and also established the SS. In India, both the RSS (Rashtriya…
Mamdani trumps Trump
SOME US media comments calling President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran K. Mamdani a ‘bromance’ may be exaggerated, but who’d have predicted that the Oval…
Marking time
“WHILE most of our leaders have, in terms of national objectives, wandered aimlessly, knowing not where they were or where they would go, the nation has virtually been marking time,…
Democracy reclaimed
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election is the moral repudiation of an establishment that mistook political access for virtue and money for merit. Against a torrent of…
Lest we regret
“MY admiration and respect for you are going up at the same rate as your progress towards a decision to grant military aid to Pakistan,” Saadat Hasan Manto wrote in…
The revolution that made a superpower
The Chinese take the first week of October off to celebrate the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. The establishment of the PRC was the fruit…
Big Tech and digital hate
Scientific thinking, rational approaches, humanism, religious tolerance, diversity, democracy, freedom of speech, and gender equality were some of the most significant fruits of the Enlightenment movement that helped pull Europe…
Two grandmasters meet in Alaska
I’ve always wondered why NATO, a Cold War relic built to contain communism, not only survived the collapse of the very empire it was created to oppose, but somehow found…
