Your weekly dose of perusals brought to you by Tanqeed.
- The rise of Islamophobia by Adam Shatz.
- Neoliberal space and control.
- Joanna Moncrief: The psychological is political.
- Always good to remind yourself that the police, as an institution, was created as “a response to crowds, not to crime.”
- Italo Calvino on the difference between childhood boredom and adult boredom, and more.
- Everything that is wrong with Robert Kaplan’s dangerous and narcissistic nostalgia for Empire.
- Here’s how much of your life the United States has been at war.
- A collection of stories about not choosing motherhood.
- Anti-Asian sentiment in the West or Buddha on a Dragon: Evolution of the Asian “Bogeyman.”
- The ten rules of writing by Amitava Kumar.
Audio treat: Beautiful cover of Bollywood hit ‘Bazigar o Bazigar’ by two Pakistani guys playing the guitar and the rabab. Enjoy, bazigar!