Democracy

free speech,freedom,truth, democracy and development

An open question asking how free speech, democracy, development, China’s growth and technology connect, and what new ideological forces may emerge over the next 20 to 150 years.

Bharata Bharatavanshi12 April 20186 comments
Islam is Breaking the Back of the Liberal Democratic Consensus

Dr Abdul Majeed Abid argues that Islam may be the rock on which the Western liberal democratic consensus is breaking, citing Turkey and France, while the editor adds that loyalty…

Brown Pundits Archive18 April 20170 comments
Is Islam the rock on which the liberal order broke?

Prompted by an article on global democracy in danger, the author revisits Fukuyama’s end-of-history thesis and asks whether Islam, rather than the postmodern critics of the West, is the force…

Brown Pundits Archive5 December 20166 comments
Waiting in Bethlehem

After the Peshawar school attack, the author argues Pakistan needs real civilian leadership and societal change of mindset, which the military cannot deliver, and doubts the hereditary political class, while…

Brown Pundits Archive20 December 20140 comments
The Tragedy of Imran Khan and the Insafian Revolution

The author argues Imran Khan once offered Pakistan its best chance of becoming a modern democracy but has squandered it through alliances with obscurantist forces, weakening democratic institutions while the…

Brown Pundits Archive4 November 20140 comments
Why democracy?

The author argues democracy confers legitimacy, as Modi’s reception at Madison Square Garden shows, answers fears of majoritarian rule by calling for a liberal democracy with minority protection, and favours…

X.T.M29 September 20140 comments
Random Thoughts

A set of scattered thoughts on Pakistan, beginning with an Urdu column that mimics Goebbels, to argue that Tahir ul Qadri and Imran Khan borrow the Left’s revolution vocabulary to…

X.T.M24 September 20140 comments
Pakistan’s Contain(er)ed Revolution

The author argues Pakistan’s ‘revolution’ is contained to a few square kilometres of Islamabad, is far smaller than Iran in 1978 or Egypt in 2011, and shows PTI lacks mass…

Brown Pundits Archive2 September 20140 comments
Saving the Incompetent Sharif Brothers and this Rapacious Unfair System

Argues that building a working democracy in an ex-colonial country takes far more skill than running a functional government, and that undermining the system, even to remove incompetent leaders like…

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments
Soft coup-

A one-paragraph comment that the Pakistan Army has emerged as the winner of the political crisis, with democracy defanged but its legitimacy preserved.

Brown Pundits Archive29 August 20140 comments