Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan's body politic.

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

We're now in a situation in which Capital is highly mobile and Labour is basically immobile.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

It is one thing for the institution to offer space for serious engagement, in thought and action, and to encourage free and independent use of such opportunities; it is something else for the university to become engaged as an institution, beyond a fairly narrow range where true consensus exists, and even that raises questions.

The one state/two state debate is irrelevant as Israel and the US consolidate Greater Israel.