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Kenan Malik

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10 months ago

Substituting liberal biases with conservative will only serve to subvert academic objectivity

Few people want to live in an echo chamber. Many have no problem being friends with those who vote differe…

Condemning them as ‘sectarian’ is only adding to the clamour that they have no place in the west

A poll suggests that most British Muslims identify more with their faith than with their nation. The he…

A new book, Underdogs, demolishes the myth that it is homogeneous in its hostility to immigration

‘Many of those who act as the champions of the white person against immigrants,” Labour MP David Winni…

Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America

‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getti…

11 months ago

The trend for cultural reappraisal could risk upholding the very ideas it aims to dismantle

‘My quarrel with the English language,” James Baldwin wrote in his essay Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare, h…

The documentary is both antisemitic and Israeli propaganda, according to critics. The truth is, it provides a rare glimpse of hope

In 2009, Tony Blair visited Masafer Yatta, a collection of hamlets in…

The poet-prophet shows us how to sustain hope and redemption in the wake of political defeat

‘Is this pessimism?”, TJ Clark asks in his 2012 essay For a Left with No Future. “Well, yes.” How else, he …

12 months ago

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated

‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’…

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

‘Whatever the attack was about, it wasn’t about The Satanic Verses.” So insists…

Whether in Gaza or the Chagos Islands, denying a people’s identity and rights paves the way to robbing them of their autonomy to govern

Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn’t. And it doesn’t whe…

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