Category Archives: Pandaemonium

THANK YOU FOR A YEAR OF SUPPORT

June 9, 2016 by Kenan Malik

It is exactly a year since I joined Patreon as a way of funding Pandaemonium. So, ‘thank you’ to everyone who has become a patron – I greatly appreciate your support. I have not managed yet to launch some of the projects that I had hoped to, such as a podcast and ebooks – I have simply been too busy – but hopefully they will appear this year. Patreon, for those who don’t know, is a crowdfunding platform for funding the work of […]

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PLUCKED FROM THE WEB

May 22, 2016 by Kenan Malik

Another (somewhat random) collection of recent essays and stories from around the web that have caught my eye and are worth plucking out to be re-read. . Why Spinoza Still Matters Steven Nadler, Aeon, 28 April 2016 At a time when Americans seem willing to bargain away their freedoms for security, when politicians talk of banning people of a certain faith from our shores, and when religious zealotry exercises greater influence on matters of law and public policy, Spinoza’s philosophy […]

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PLUCKED FROM THE WEB

April 24, 2016 by Kenan Malik

A (somewhat random) collection of recent essays and stories from around the web that have caught my eye and are worth plucking out to be re-read – the first in an occasional series on Panademonium. . The Assassin’s Veto: Blasphemy and Charlie Hebdo Myra MacDonald, War on the Rocks, 11 April 2016 You don’t need to like Charlie Hebdo. But you should asking why anyone should compromise with the most regressive forces in Islam represented by the men who killed […]

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HELP ME CREATE MORE PANDAEMONIUM

January 4, 2016 by Kenan Malik

Last year, I joined Patreon, a crowdfunding platform for funding the work of writers, artists and musicians. Like a cross between Kickstarter and Paypal, Patreon allows supporters to make small monthly contributions – anything from $1 to $50 (or more if you wish…). Unlike, say, Kickstarter, it is not a one-time relatively large donation but a small recurring pledge. Here is a video explaining how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-IDF809fQ The only difference is that on Pandaemonium, rather than asking you to […]

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A YEAR OF PANDAEMONIUM

January 1, 2016 by Kenan Malik

Happy New Year! 2015 was a great year for Pandaemonium. It received more than 500,000 visitors – the first time it’s broken the half-million mark. But it was such a frantic, hectic, non-stop year that many of the new projects that I had hoped to launch, including ebooks and podcasts, have still to get off the ground. Hopefully, that will happen sometime this year. In 2015 I joined Patreon, a crowdfunding platform that allows supporters to help fund the work […]

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THANK YOU – AND DO PATRONISE ME

October 14, 2015 by Kenan Malik

This is to say ‘thank you’ again to all those who have become patrons of Pandaemonium – I greatly appreciate your support. It is also to encourage others who would like to help Pandaemonium develop and grow (with the launch, too, of ebooks, podcasts and, possibly, videos) also to become patrons. You can patronize Pandaemonium through Patreon, a crowdfunding platform for funding the work of writers, artists and musicians. Like a cross between Kickstarter and Paypal, Patreon allows supporters to make […]

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THANK YOU!

July 3, 2015 by Kenan Malik

…to all those who have become Patrons of Pandaemonium. Last month I joined Patreon, a crowdfunding platform that allows supporters to help fund the work of writers, artists and musicians by making small monthly contributions. I have here explained the process more fully. My heartfelt thanks to all those who have signed up (there is a Pandaemonium page with a list of patrons). I greatly appreciate your support, and I hope you will see the fruits in an improved Pandaemonium. […]

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PATRONISE ME!

June 9, 2015 by Kenan Malik

Pandaemonium is four years old (its birthday was in January, so it is actually four-and-a-half now). In those four-and-a-half years Pandaemonium has gone from being a tiny blog hosting weekly, small-scale posts to a major website carrying regular thrice-weekly posts, and mostly longform essays. It has grown into a space for ideas and arguments that have helped shape the wider debate – on free speech, multiculturalism, radical Islam, immigration, religious freedom, moral reasoning and scientific advance – and a set […]

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TOP QUARK!

March 23, 2015 by Kenan Malik

My essay Assimilationism vs Multiculturalism has won the 3 Quarks Daily Politics and Social Science Prize for 2015. My thanks to 3 Quarks Daily (which, if you don’t know already, is a superb web-based magazine/portal) and to Kenneth Roth, of Human Rights Watch, who judged the competition. The other winning essays were Xavier Marquez’s The Saudi Monarchy as a Family Firm and Omar Ali’s Blasphemy, blasphemy laws, Pakistan, Charlie Hebdo… And the full list of the other finalists: Misha Leptic, Notes of a Grand Juror (3 Quarks […]

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VOTE, VOTE, VOTE

March 7, 2015 by Kenan Malik

The Israeli elections are coming up. The British elections are coming up. But before all that there’s a different kind of vote: for the annual 3 Quarks Daily Politics and Social Science blogging award. For those who don’t know, 3 Quarks Daily is a wonderful web-based magazine/portal which annually hosts an award for the best online writing on politics and social science. There are this year 29 nominees, one of which is my essay ‘Assimilationism vs multiculturalism’. 3QD readers get to […]

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PANDAEMONIUM: THE ESSENTIAL LIST

February 13, 2015 by Kenan Malik

Pandaemonium is four years old. (The birthday was actually last month, but I’m never good with dates…) I thought that it was time I updated my list of ‘essential readings’ from the blog that I publish on my Introduction page. So, for those who have not read them yet, here are 21 essays, talks and reviews from over the past four years that I think best set out my arguments and ideas. And if you want even more, there is […]

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A YEAR OF PANDAEMONIUM

December 31, 2014 by Kenan Malik

It has been a frantic, hectic, non-stop year, and that’s been reflected in Pandaemonium. My thanks to everyone who has read, commented and supported this blog. Here are some of the highlights of a year of Pandaemonium in 2014. And best wishes to all for 2015. The Quest for a Moral Compass My book, The Quest for a Moral Compass, was published in May, and the reviews have largely been favourable; I was particularly taken by those from Jonathan […]

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TOP QUARK

March 25, 2014 by Kenan Malik

My essay, In Defence of Diversity, has won the 3 Quarks Daily 2014 Politics and Social Science Prize. My thanks to 3 Quarks Daily (which, if you don’t know already, is a superb web-based magazine/portal) and to Mark Blyth who judged the competition. The other winning essays were Filipe Gracio’s Democratic Austerity: Semi-sovereign states, semi-sovereign peoples and Philip Cohen’s State of Utah falsely claims same-sex marriage ban makes married, man-woman parenting more likely. And here is the full list of the other […]

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VOTE, VOTE, VOTE

March 10, 2014 by Kenan Malik

OK, not the most important vote of the year, but 3 Quarks Daily has opened the voting for its 2014 Politics and Social Science blogging award. For those who don’t know this is an annual prize for the best blog post or online writing on politics and social science. There are this year 32 nominees, one of which is my ‘In Defence of Diversity’. 3QD readers get to vote on the nominated posts, to reduce the list to 20; the editors […]

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THE 3 QUARKS DAILY PRIZE

February 28, 2014 by Kenan Malik

3 Quarks Daily, the superb web-based magazine/portal, has relaunched its annual prize for the best blog and online writing on politics and social science. The judge this year will be Mark Blyth, professor of international political economy at Brown University. Back in 2011 my essay on ‘Rethinking the Idea of Christian Europe’ won the 3QD prize for that year. In keeping with the 3QD tradition of self-nomination I have nominated for this year’s competition my essay ‘In Defence of Diversity’. […]

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