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Why Pakistani liberalism fails to confront power and its own contradictions
Tracing how the language of exception normalises the stripping of humanity from entire societies
What Auschwitz, Agamben and the present reveal about the architecture of power
The roots of ignorance in Pakistan series examines the closed mind and why no ideology is immune from it
The roots of ignorance often lie hidden in a society’s most confident assertions
Understanding the importance of knowledge and faith in an age defined by populism and rhetoric
The dangers of isolationist policies through the lens of Orwell’s dystopian vision
Tracing Gilgit-Baltistan’s journey from a geopolitical hotspot to a modern cultural and academic hub
A journey through the layers of an eternal city
Collingwood is reckoned among the group of historiographers who favour the idea of a single history
The Twentieth Century saw the emergence of a discourse against making various disciplines in social science ‘scientific’
Lisbon had a role in the battle of ideas triggered by a cataclysmic event
The lives that have been undone in the Gaza war bear testimony to the undoing of philosophical thought in our age
The roots and implications of metaphor in Urdu literature
The case of Gilgit-Baltistan is a clear manifestation of the failure of political imagination of Pakistan’s ruling class
Given the changed political context, the existing social diversity and emerging realities, it is imperative to introduce a special bill of rights...
The modern order of things is a result of rationalisation. To synchronise with modern times, it is important to bring about changes in our ways of...
Continuing the tradition of debate, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Canadian psychologist Jordan B. Peterson engage in a debate titled...
The region of Kohistan has fascinated researchers and adventurers alike. With the recent murder of Afzal Kohistani, it is important to understand...
Hegel’s paradigm claims that history moves through conflict of ideas. Does the leftist ideology today calls for an insurrection
