A Development Problem
Prime minister Manmohan Singh has identified Maoists as the single most serious threat to India’s national security. In the last few years, these facts have been well-circulated in news reports on India’s stability. But who are the Maoists? What do they believe?
A plague at a feast
States are not so much declining, failing and yielding as transforming their very nature. The network is the right metaphor to grasping the new state’s complexity.
I plunge my spear into your body many times
You are quick like a monkey, running through the tree-tops, But now you will die.
Something that ought to have remained hidden
“We’re so motivated to get rid of that feeling that we look for meaning and coherence elsewhere,”
Abject poverty and perpetual debt
Long lines of people stretched around city blocks in front of ATM machines, waiting hours to withdraw the equivalent of US $3—the maximum allowed by law.
A robust role in the slaughter
America’s best and brightest will continue to explore innovative ways for human rights to serve a thoroughly militarized foreign policy
The terrorism of politesse maintains an imperceptible distance
What are you in the art world? The answer, and the art world, matter less each time the question is asked.
Not only to expand but to reorganize the world in its own image
It is unlikely that anyone has ever confused a page of Thomas Friedman’s with one of Immanuel Kant’s, but between them it is possible to triangulate a prevailing sensibility of the past two decades.
The gods of profit and production
Today, approximately a billion people — close to one-sixth of humanity — suffer from continual and severe hunger.
A confusion between peoples and values
Multiculturalists claim that the presence in a society of a diversity of peoples limits the possibility of common values. Clash of civilisations warriors insist that such values are impossible within an ethnically diverse society. Neither is right.
Without a warless day
War is increasingly a state of being, not a process with a beginning, an end, and an actual geography.
