For Pankaj Mishra's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
In recent weeks, doctors, nurses and care workers for the British National Health Service — in particular, immigrants — are presently being hailed for their gritty sense of duty, for standing between many people and premature death.
After failing to anticipate the financial crisis, networks and major newspapers have earned a good chance of flourishing in the future.
Much maligned in recent years, big government will come back — and with it, the potential for both greater good and evil. Threatening the world with a long recession, the new coronavirus looks set to inaugurate a turbulent new political and economic era. Its main ...
The COVID-19 pandemic reflects a systemic crisis akin to the seminal crashes of the 20th century.
Free trade turns out to be something that helps a rising great power, until it doesn't.
Mass protests in country after country show how powerful the demand for social equality remains
He's hardly the only politician to realize that ethnic nationalism is a means of creating a cohesive political community.
It was not about "Muslim rage." It was a rebellion against a Westernized, undemocratic technocracy.
Making a better future requires an unsentimental reckoning with the past.
The widely embraced political certainties of the 1980s and 1990s are dead, and those who still cling to them are condemned to repeat, "I was wrong."
