Later this week, the Turkish Constitutional Court is expected to hand down a decision that will determine the fate of…
The rise and fall of the AKP
politics
What we talk about when we talk about shari‘a
A few clarifying points are in order regarding an essay of mine in The New York Times Magazine that drew…
Why Shariah?
Noah Feldman prefaces his plea for the Shariah in his recent article for The New York Times Magazine ("Why Shariah?")…
The paradoxes of Pakistan
While pundits are busy debating who was responsible for Benazir’s tragic death, the larger tragedy of Pakistan’s political history should…
The death of secular democracy in Pakistan?
The first time I met Benazir’s father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, many years ago, I bought a new suit for the…
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto was my classmate at Oxford in the 1970s. That is not the opening sentence of a feel-good encomium…