liberal democracy
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Why I find it difficult to debate Hinditvas + liberal Zionists
The author argues that Pakistan and Iran should be judged as Islamic Republics, but India and Israel, which claim to be liberal democracies, must meet those standards. He says Israel’s…
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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…
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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…
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Leaving the Left Behind
The poster relays a defence of Jamal Naqvi’s book Leaving the Left Behind, which confronts fundamentalism, and agrees with its extracts that Pakistan’s left should drop rigid economic dogma and…
