But the fate of Pakistan which had chosen to tread such a path is there for all to see.Which is that modern democracy and religious orthodoxy do not and cannot stick together.

Democracy is easy to understand. The Declaration of Independence spells out the basic principles. Let’s restate them in modern terms. This is a strong statement about one’s standing in a ...

It would take a near-political miracle for that to happen. But illiberal democracy — Poland demonstrated this during the legislative elections in October 2023 — can be defeated. And give way ...

R. Bruce Anderson writes that a large proportion of European nations came to democratic “norms” while he was alive. What are we teaching them?

it was not conformism to Western modernity but rather judging their own tradition by the normativity of the Quran. Iqbal was a democrat in impulse and thought; he attacked Western democracy for ...

The Congress on Tuesday paid rich tributes to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary and said ...