Tag: Intellectual
France calls to delete the verses of Quran to achieve “cultural...
News Desk | Last month, a manifesto was published in French daily signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians supported by former President Nicholas...
Learning methods that suppress critical thinking
Muneeb Imran | Sitting with old colleagues, who parted ways into either different departments of the same organization or into different organizations, the discussion became...
US hopeful about China talks to resolve trade dispute
AFP | Senior US officials are due to travel to Beijing on Tuesday to hold talks on resolving an escalating trade dispute and they say...
The pitfalls of Judicial Activism and what to do about It
Abdur Rahim | American historian and public intellectual Arthur Schlesinger Junior introduced the controversial term “Judicial activism” in Fortune Magazine in an article titled “...
Battle to free Mosul of IS ‘intellectual terrorism’
AFP | In a classroom of the University of Mosul, in the Islamic State group's former Iraqi capital, around 50 volunteers have undergone a week's...
Our real intellectual crisis is not that we are failing to...
Dr. S. Zulfiqar Gilani | Discerning people agree that we have an intellectual crisis in the country. However, write-ups on the crisis are largely descriptive...
“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world you’re a...
Dani Rodrik | Populisms revolt reflects the deep rift that has opened between the worldview of the global intellectual and professional elites and the ordinary citizens....
Jeevay Jeevay Pakistan; but from now on, ‘Humaray Dum Se’
Mina Malik-Hussain | Each year one writes a column hoping 'Things Will Change', and that’s one rather endearing trait we embody: hope. But sometimes one...