Multiculturalism: a defence
In the age of right wing populism we currently find ourselves in, multiculturalism has come to be identified with the liberal elite, with liberalism, and identity politics, identified with ‘swarms’…
Shooting wars
Last week, Steve Bannon, the ‘eminence gris’ in the Trump White House, blithely observed that the US will soon be in a “shooting war” in the Middle East. He may…
New and unimproved ‘war on terror’
Last week, as Pakistan was reeling from an onslaught of terror attacks, and analysts and ordinary people alike were wondering what this new and sudden spate of blasts meant, similar…
A quick-fix president
Every US president is his country’s commander-in-chief as well as diplomat-in-chief. If defence and diplomacy can be compared to two sides of the same coin, diplomacy is often described as…
Trump’s ban, JFK and Sharbat Gula
The Muslim ban enacted by President Trump is going to launch a thousand narratives of victim hood, of seething rage, and of hatred. This is the power of the politics…
Trump goes wild
One of the more widely shared postmortems of Donald J. Trump’s shocking electoral triumph late last year proposed that whereas his vast legions of supporters took him seriously but not…
America in transition
Restoring America's "greatness" struck a chord among Americans, nonetheless thousands came out in protest against what my good friend Frank Neuman had confidently and correctly predicted, a stunning victory for…
Beyond political rhetoric
Donald Trump is all set to enter the White House as the 45th president of the United States. Alienation and economic anxiety largely deriving from the dynamics of globalisation have…
Surviving Trump’s times
They say a week is a long time in politics. Nearly a week after Donald Trump’s shock victory though, the news is yet to sink in across the globe. The…
Trump and curating our own bubbles
Over the last several years, my privilege as a member of the small community of those blessed with a public soapbox in this country, has given me an opportunity to…
