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Trump brings issues to the fore
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 08/08/2016
» Political life in the West, it is safe to say, has not witnessed a figure such as Donald Trump for decades. His attacks on the parents of army captain Humayun Khan, who died on duty in Iraq in 2004, is the latest jaw-dropping episode from his presidential campaign. But as he lurches toward what one hopes will be ignominious defeat in November, we must also acknowledge two positive contributions he has made, however inadvertently, to public life.
What's driving the global spread of demagogues?
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 01/06/2016
» In Austria last month, nearly half of the electorate voted for the presidential candidate of a party set up by former Nazis. The politics of fear unequivocally triumphed in Assam, a state in India's northeast, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party came to power for the first time on an explicitly xenophobic platform.
'Gangsta Islam' has very little to do with religion
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 21/04/2016
» 'Islam's borders are bloody," Samuel Huntington once wrote, "and so are its innards." Since the Sept 11 attacks, that conventional wisdom has fuelled a bizarre search for the Islamic roots of modern terrorism.
Trumpism meets defeat in London
News, Pankaj Mishra, Published on 10/05/2016
» Donald Trump became last week the presumptive Republican nominee in the US presidential elections. But those condemned to agonising suspense and anxiety until November should note that Trumpism, or the politics of hate and fear, also suffered a major defeat last week.