In the first part of this article, we showed the perils of stretching gender equality to the extreme. The feminists still had a long way to go in responding to these threats when another enemy hit them. It relates to the resurgence of an ideology... Continue reading
75 years ago, on 24th October 1945, the United Nations Organization (UNO) came into being. The lack of enthusiasm for this landmark anniversary shows how far this organisation has drifted from the lofty ideals enshrined in its framework. The pream... Continue reading
France is a copybook democracy; China is thequintessential dictatorship. Democracies have the rule of law, dictatorships have the rule of whims. The possibility that France will treat its minorities fairly is much higher than China doing so, both... Continue reading
If we believe Bertrand Russell then we do not have much to choose between democracy and dictatorship; “Democracy; the fools have a right to vote. Dictatorship; the fools have a right to rule”. Russell was a mathematician and a philosop... Continue reading
Thinkers bristle at the thought of consensus. Michael Crichton, the famous science fiction writer and the author of “Jurassic Park”, called consensus the “refuge of scoundrels” and the quest for consensus in science as pern... Continue reading
Ilhan Omar is an Islamist hardliner who came as a refugee from Somalia to the US, as her motherland had become a failed state due to the depredations of the Islamist terror group Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen that claims to be waging jihad again... Continue reading
Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of Defence had famously said during a 2002 press briefing, "... there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we... Continue reading
In spite of the five decades of engagement that have strengthened China and weakened the relative position of the US, the latter has not given up on the hope of a working relationship with China. In hindsight, every US policy of engagement with Ch... Continue reading
Three days after Putin invaded Ukraine, Olaf Scholz, the Chancellor of Germany, made a speech to the Bundestag, the German Parliament, calling the circumstances zeitenwende, a watershed moment. He announced policies that amounted to a departure fr... Continue reading
The Chinese have been conditioned, since the imperial days, to kowtow when in an inferior position and to be arrogant when in a superior one. This collective psyche has been displayed in China’s geopolitics and its leaders’ utterances... Continue reading
Starting a war is serious business; conventional wisdom’s 3:1 rule says that the attacker needs three times the strength required for defence. Attacking another country requires an assessment of the opponent’s allies and sustainability... Continue reading