While preparing for a recent move to St Louis, Missouri, the first item I packed was my dearest possession, an old faded picture of a cow grazing in a sloping field in Mexico. This was the only cow my grandparents owned and they sold it to pay a smuggler to bring me into the United… Read more »
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The Red Hen and the resistance
In almost every opinion on the restaurant that famously refused to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders, there is a too-neat congruence between the moral argument and the meta-political argument. If you think it’s right and just and admirable to deprive a Trump administration mouthpiece of an evening out in polite society, you probably also think that… Read more »
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#MeToo comes for the archbishop
The first time I ever heard the truth about Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, DC, finally exposed as a sexual predator years into his retirement, I thought I was listening to a paranoiac rant. It was the early 2000s, I was attending some earnest panel on religion, and I was accosted by… Read more »
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Deciphering the good governance prescription
For almost two decades, Dhaka’s vibrant think-tank ecosystem has almost unanimously endorsed the idea that for Bangladesh to economically transform itself, attaining good governance through the creation of sound institutions is a fundamental precondition. At the outset, this prescription has an incredible intellectual appeal. And it is mostly due to how good governance is largely… Read more »
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Ivanka and vodka, on the rocks
It was Ivanka’s nightmare. Sipping vodka under chandeliers in a cool private club on the Lower East Side, the New York elite — the very ones Ivanka’s father scorned at a rally a few days ago for looking down on him even though he has “a much better apartment” and is “smarter” and “richer” —… Read more »
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World Refugee Day, 2018: Some memories and reflections since 1971
On World Refugee Day this year, it was very sobering to know that according to the UN there are 68.5 million displaced people in different parts of the world which is three million higher than last year and 50 percent higher than 10 years ago. On World Refugee Day this year I was remembering my… Read more »