Patrick Lawrence: Authorized Atrocities / Late-Imperial Duplicities

GAZA casualties live statistics Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state. It is remarked often enough, including in this space, that Israel’s savagery in its determination to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza — and we had better brace for what is next on the West Bank of… Read More Patrick Lawrence: Authorized Atrocities / Late-Imperial Duplicities

Facing history and ourselves

People’s Archive of Rural India Ulopi Biswas was declared a ‘foreigner’ despite the family’s Indian citizenship and her own papers that prove her nationality. She was declared a D-voter, and went through a trial at Bongaigaon Foreign Tribunal in 2017-2022 to prove her citizenship. Kulsum Nissa and Sufia Khatun, who are out on bail from… Read More Facing history and ourselves

Facing three global crises, the American empire may be nearing final collapse

By ALFRED MCCOY Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises in India, Iran… Read More Facing three global crises, the American empire may be nearing final collapse

Who Was Averroes?

Averroes (Ibn Rushd; 1126–1198) was one of the greatest polymaths of the ancient Islamic world, whose practice expanded into philosophy, theology, astronomy, physics, linguistics and more Averroism’, ‘radical Aristotelianism’ and ‘heterodox Aristotelianism’ are nineteenth- and twentieth-century labels for a late thirteenth-century movement among Parisian philosophers whose views were not easily reconcilable with Christian doctrine. The… Read More Who Was Averroes?

Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility: Lord Acton

Lord Acton writes to Bishop Creighton in a series of letters (1887) concerning the moral problem of writing history about the Inquisition. Acton believes that the same moral standards should be applied to all men, political and religious leaders included, especially since, in his famous phrase, “power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”: I… Read More Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility: Lord Acton

Sanjay Tickoo on the threat to Kashmiri Pandits: An analysis from ground zero

Despite the prevailing climate of hostility and intolerance, a significant segment of Kashmir’s majority population remains committed to standing in solidarity with Kashmiri Pandits. Driven by compassion, justice, and humanity, these individuals acknowledge the injustices and suffering faced by their minority counterparts and seek to be allies in their pursuit of justice, dignity, and peace.… Read More Sanjay Tickoo on the threat to Kashmiri Pandits: An analysis from ground zero