I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to occupy, and then appeal to the best nature of people on that common ground.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.