Political polarisation
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If You Have a Side, You Don’t Care for the Other Side
X.T.M argues that partisanship is not empathy: those who already have a side do not truly care for the other, as Pakistanis and Indians alike use the other’s minorities as…
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Judicial Jitters in Pakistan, continued..
Hamid Hussain, in the first of three pieces, argues that the rift among Pakistan’s senior judges, split seven to seven, stems from the political crisis and the Supreme Court’s own…
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Book Review- Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha: Anatomy of Polarization
A review of Rahul Roushan’s memoir Sanghi Who Never Went to a Shakha, which traces his move from indifference to his Hindu identity to wholesale acceptance of it and a…
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Why the Far Left Is More Dangerous Than the Far Right
A brown Democrat argues that the far left poses a greater danger to America than the far right, citing survey charts and drawing parallels with the Indian left, while stressing…
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Being right-wing is just a thing, no matter the color
Responding to a Juggernaut piece on Seema Verma, the author argues that non-liberal Indian Americans are wrongly assumed to show false consciousness or self-interest, citing research that liberals and conservatives…
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Muslim-American personalities and political polarization – part 1
In the first part of a long post, the author discusses Muslims in American public life, comparing how Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy broke barriers for African Americans and…
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Browncast Episode 29: Zaid Jilani on the discourse, the primaries, and culture
On Browncast Episode 29, journalist Zaid Jilani discusses his project to bring people of different views together, where his own views came from, growing up in the rural South, and…
