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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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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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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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A YEAR OF PANDAEMONIUM

December 29, 2013 by Kenan Malik

It has been an eventful year on Pandaemonium, not least because of the redesign, which seems mostly to have gone well. My thanks to everyone who has read, commented on and supported this blog. Here are some of the highlights of 2013 on Pandaemonium. Immigration Throughout the year much of British politics (indeed of European politics) has been dominated by the issue of immigration. It is an issue that has taken up much of my writing on Pandaemonium too. I reviewed […]

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BOOKS, A BOOKSHOP AND A LITTLE INTRODUCTION

September 18, 2013 by Kenan Malik

The new Pandaemonium is slowly evolving. There is a new books page, and I have added the introductions to both From Fatwa to Jihad and Strange Fruit, as well as reviews of both books. I have put up, too, the opening section to my forthcoming book (or rather, extended essay) Multiculturalism and its Discontents, due out next month. There is now an online Pandaemonium bookshop (powered by Amazon) from which you can buy both my books and some of my favourite works […]

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HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH TEN OF MY BEST FROM THE OLD YEAR

December 31, 2012 by Kenan Malik

…According to you, that is. Here are the ten most popular posts on Pandaemonium from 2012. One, ‘Rethinking the idea of “Christian Europe”‘, is actually from 2011 but was sufficiently read this year to make it on to this list: 1 The myths of Muslim rage 2 To name the unnameable 3 What is wrong with multiculturalism? 4 Who needs God? 5 Nietzsche, nihilism and the death of God 6 Beyond the sacred 7 Abortion, infanticide, humanity, free speech 8 […]

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