Commentary / World Jul 29, 2016
A brutal majority in Kashmir and elsewhere
The rise of a rabid majoritarianism is part of a larger rejection of politics based on reason and dialogue.
Commentary / World May 10, 2016
Trumpism suffers a loss in London
Trumpism, or the politics of hate and fear, suffered a major defeat last week with the election of a Muslim as mayor of London.
Commentary / World Feb 2, 2016
The chorus against the posh boys grows louder
The global elites' competence and moral legitimacy are being questioned like never before.
Commentary / World Dec 18, 2015
Muslims should be grateful to Donald Trump
Like anti-Semitism, Islamophobia breeds in the swamp of fear and insecurity that is truly the modern world for many people.
Commentary / World Oct 19, 2015
Beyond India's beef with beef, new hatreds grow
Religious extremism in South Asia is symptomatic of a larger phenomenon: the shattering of the postcolonial order under the stresses of a massive economic and demographic transition.
Commentary / World Sep 10, 2015
Germany, a nation of refugees, opens its doors
The world, faced with the unexpected emergence of Germany as Europe's conscience amid the refugee crisis, is discovering some of the ways the country remade itself after World War II.
Commentary / World Aug 4, 2015
Can Singapore save democracy?
The conditions exist for Singapore to move from being a showcase of efficient authoritarianism to an exemplar of that much-invoked but nearly extinct thing: democracy.
Commentary / World Jul 14, 2015
India and Israel start to see enemies within
Right-wing demagogues emerging in both India and Israel seek to forge a new national identity by stigmatizing particular religious and secular groups.
Commentary / World Jun 22, 2015
Rise of the chest-thumping nationalist leaders
The leaders of India, China and Russia are promoting a nationalist ideology to hold their highly unequal countries together.
Commentary / World May 12, 2015
Little Englandism goes big in British elections
The unraveling of British identify, which started when Britain lost its empire, will likely accelerate in the months to come.