America’s strength has made it a sort of Gulliver …– Mohsin Hamid
America’s strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a
America’s strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little about: envy. The richest, most powerful country in
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role
Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are
Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.
It’s very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there’s a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that… the reader is left with an echo of: ‘How much of this was from me?’
There’s a real, brutal nature to the capitalism practiced by the main character in ‘How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.’ And I think
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