What the New York police are taught about Islam
Muslims are taking over the world. Run! No, fight! No, run!
The ‘inheritance project’ and Mubarak’s last hours
The film hindi going on behind the scenes during the last days of Egypt’s First Family
The Fantastic Four of the Republican race
A robot, a kook, and two flawed moralizing Catholics is really the best that the GOP can offer us?
Finally, propaganda I can believe in
The UK Foreign Office makes a stout defense of multiculturalism, just in time for the Olympics
Expect a lot of Republican talk about the apocalypse
As Richard Nixon understood, anger and resentment are the ties that bind American conservatism
The incoherence of the Republican battle in Iowa
GOP social and economic policies are incoherent and none of the candidates knows how to hide that
Hitch 1949-2011
Christopher Hitchens wrote like a polymath on a bender and his bombast was a pure reading pleasure
Fashion collective threeASFOUR brings peace to the Middle East
Hardly: Muslim – Jewish cultural ‘togetherness’ is the easy part
The Republicans’ fantasy of a Christian theocracy
The Republicans may demonize Islamists, but they think a lot like them
Dreamy visions of Gaddafi at the London Review of Books
Hugh Roberts slams NATO for not negotiating with a man who vowed to fight to the last drop of blood
Peter Schjeldahl wanders blind through the Met’s new Islamic wing
He sees only difference where he ought to be able to see centuries of cultural exchange
On the Overblown Islamist Threat
Breathe deeply right-wingers: even the former Jordanian foreign minister doesn’t fear the Islamists
On Arab intellectuals during the revolution
Really, did anyone need an intellectual to tell them what the revolution was about?
Reading the 1913 report on the discovery of Machu Picchu
How did Hiram Bingham ‘discover’ the Lost City of the Incas? He asked directions. Typical
The New York Times launches India Ink
Its first ever country-specific blog, on all things Indian. Why I’ve waited twenty years for this
Liberal hawk Bill Keller changes his mind on the Iraq war
But the former New York Times executive editor still misses the main reason to have opposed the war
The Gaddafi family photo album
Gaddafi made himself a celebrity. Is that why the Times decided to publish his stolen family album?
Gaddafi’s mercenaries reveal all
They are the ‘smart money’ in the stockmarket battlefield and started to flee two weeks ago
For those who think London’s going to hell
Good news: it has been going to hell for 50 years, since the knife fights between Mods and Rockers
On the Palestinian request for UN recognition
A former AIPAC lobbyist says Palestine is ‘imaginary’ and unworthy of UN recognition. Surprise
Norway and the loss of innocence
It was always a myth, a very Norwegian way to boast about their own modesty