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Reading Jill Ciment’s <em>Consent</em> As a Former Teenage Bride

Reading Jill Ciment’s Consent As a Former Teenage Bride

Rafia Zakaria Considers Context, Choices and Consequences Across Eras and Cultures

By Rafia Zakaria | June 24, 2024

Why Brené Brown’s Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World’s Most Vulnerable

Why Brené Brown’s Gospel of Vulnerability Fails the World’s Most Vulnerable

Rafia Zakaria on the CEO Whisperer’s Recent Failure in Addressing the Genocide in Gaza

By Rafia Zakaria | February 21, 2024

How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

Rafia Zakaria on American Neoimperialism Lies of Liberation

By Rafia Zakaria | August 19, 2021

I Like to Be on the Margins: An Interview with Nadeem Aslam

I Like to Be on the Margins: An Interview with Nadeem Aslam

The Golden Legend Author on Politics, Marriage, and Reading Widely

By Rafia Zakaria | August 23, 2017

Reading Houellebecq in the Midst of the French Elections

Reading Houellebecq in the Midst of the French Elections

How Art Can Hasten a Macabre Moral Shift and Legitimate Prejudice

By Rafia Zakaria | May 5, 2017

Pankaj Mishra: We Committed Intellectual Suicide After 9/11

Pankaj Mishra: We Committed Intellectual Suicide After 9/11

On Progress, Popular History, and Our Bleak and Divided Global Moment

By Rafia Zakaria | March 20, 2017

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Love and Terror in Pasternak's Russia

By Rafia Zakaria | February 14, 2017

What's Happening in America? Susan Sontag Sought to Find Out in 1966

By Rafia Zakaria | January 20, 2017

A Feminist Thoreau

By Rafia Zakaria | November 30, 2016

The Banality of Donald Trump

The Banality of Donald Trump

On Hannah Arendt's Birthday, Examining her Relevance to our Political Moment

By Rafia Zakaria | October 14, 2016