The Collection

All Essays.

Every essay published on InshaYalla, arranged newest first.

Current Events

One Man, Three Fronts

Pakistan is at war in the west, unreconciled in the east and bound in the Gulf to a pact that could turn Iran hostile.

October 6, 20266 min readRead essay →

Just Democracy Series

Madison called written guarantees parchment barriers. The test is what stands behind them, in the statute book and on the street.

September 22, 20269 min readRead essay →

Just Democracy Series

Pakistan raises the price with fear, the United States with money, Canada almost by accident. Sweden set it near zero by design.

September 8, 202610 min readRead essay →

Just Democracy Series

Judge a democracy by what its armed forces hold that no election can take back. Then watch which way the list moves.

August 25, 202611 min readRead essay →

Faith

Islam once had rules about who could interpret its scripture. Fundamentalism is what happens when nobody enforces them.

August 11, 20269 min readRead essay →

Just Democracy Series

Pakistan, the United States, and South Korea have each been measured against the same test. Only one of them passed.

August 4, 20266 min readRead essay →

Current Events

Canada tells itself a story about being the reasonable neighbour. Its defense industrial ties tell a different one.

July 21, 20264 min readRead essay →

Ideology

Mill and Rawls built the case for liberalism. The movement that inherited it has spent a generation undermining its own foundations.

July 21, 20264 min readRead essay →

Ideology

Conservatism was once a serious argument about the value of institutions. What calls itself conservative today is its opposite.

July 20, 20264 min readRead essay →

Just Democracy Series

Democracy is not self-legitimating. Borrowing from just war theory, a framework for what legitimate governance actually requires.

July 19, 20263 min readRead essay →