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Kenan Malik

Kenan Malik is a London-based writer, lecturer, and broadcaster. His most recent book is The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (2014). (January 2018)

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When Monuments Fall

Perhaps the best way to express the changing attitudes toward the past is not necessarily to tear down statues, but to put up new ones that allow us to acknowledge the complexities of history. Frederick Douglass himself was of this view.

September 9, 2020

The Great British Empire Debate

The sun may have long ago set on the British Empire (or on all but a few tattered shreds of it), but it never seems to set on the debate about the merits of empire.

January 26, 2018

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