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Kenan Malik

The Guardian

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DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it

DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it
yesterday 60

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Until we tackle the nihilistic rage behind terrorism, it will stay the menace of our age

Until we tackle the nihilistic rage behind terrorism, it will stay the menace of our age
26.01.2025 20

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Despite the eulogies, the postwar order did little for peace – and fuelled the rise of populism

Despite the eulogies, the postwar order did little for peace – and fuelled the rise of populism
19.01.2025 40

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs

The right is trying to rewrite history with its toxic rhetoric on Britain’s rape gangs
12.01.2025 60

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Forget talk of defending workers, the US visa feud is about the market’s needs

On the one side stand Silicon Valley moguls and leaders of corporate America; on the other, longstanding Donald Trump loyalists and supporters of...

05.01.2025 10

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Was the Magdeburg market attack the inevitable product of an anti-politics age?

Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, the alleged perpetrator of the horror attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg, does not, Germany’s interior minister,...

29.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Who should have the last word on assisted dying in a secular Britain?

For many years, I used to give an annual lecture to theology students training to be Anglican priests at Trinity College, Bristol, on “Why I am an...

01.12.2024 5

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

I’ll defend Allison Pearson’s right to be obnoxious – as she should defend mine

There are few columnists with whom I disagree more than I do with the Daily Telegraph’s Allison Pearson. Yet, I welcome the decision by the police...

24.11.2024 50

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

How a small group of Amazon workers took on big business and challenged traditional unions

‘The union wants to protect workers. The employer wants to protect workers. How do I choose between them?” So asks one young worker in Union, a...

17.11.2024 5

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Cosplaying social justice is the new elitist way of elbowing out the working class

When Musa al-Gharbi first arrived in New York in 2016, what he most noticed was the operation of a “racialized caste system” under which...

10.11.2024 40

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Today’s populism is informed by bigotry, but its roots lie in the promise of equality

‘American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.” Not a comment on this year’s presidential campaign but an observation on another US...

03.11.2024 40

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Our first political prisoner? No. Locking up dissenters is an ignoble British tradition

In July 1967, the Black Power activist Michael X addressed a meeting in Reading. “The most savage human being in the world,” he told the audience,...

27.10.2024 30

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

The Observer view on the death of Yahya Sinwar: Joe Biden must use this moment to press for peace

Contrasting reactions to the chance killing by Israeli soldiers of Hamas’s top leader, Yahya Sinwar, offer a chastening guide to the dismal,...

20.10.2024 20

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Pumping the unemployed with weight-loss drugs echoes Victorian attitudes to the poor

In early 2023, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, chief executive of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, and its UK corporate vice-president...

20.10.2024 70

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Israel is not ‘saving western civilisation’. Nor is Hamas leading ‘the resistance’

‘Israel is not invading Lebanon, it is liberating it.” So proclaimed France’s pre-eminent liberal philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy as Israeli tanks...

13.10.2024 90

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

Conservatism, the late philosopher Roger Scruton wrote, emerged into the modern world as “a kind of ‘yes but…’” response to liberalism....

29.09.2024 8

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Too white? Too black? Too woke? Politics by labelling is a disease of our times

Yes, I’ve been called a “coconut”. When Marieha Hussain wrote the word on a placard she carried on a Palestine march last November, it was to...

22.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Trump’s fantasy that migrants are eating cats proves the meme has prevailed over real politics

If one town could be emblematic of the vicissitudes of blue-collar life in America, Springfield, Ohio, might be as good a pick as any. At the heart...

15.09.2024 60

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Pride or shame? British history is too complex to be seen in such glib terms

‘Britain’s long and proud history has been trashed by the self-hating left.” “British history is not being taught and people are hugely ignorant of...

08.09.2024 2

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Defending working-class interests requires more than simply opposing immigration

‘Immigration harms British workers. We must restrict immigration to improve working-class lives.” That is the subtext – and often the explicit...

18.08.2024 40

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

The roots of this unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances

“The British soul is awakening and stirring with rage at what these people are doing,” the Spectator’s Douglas Murray told former Australian deputy...

11.08.2024 20

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too

James Baldwin was about 10 when he first read Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. The character in the novel that most spoke to him was not the...

28.07.2024 50

The Guardian

Kenan Malik

Aristopopulists like JD Vance can offer only empty promises to the working class

‘The tragedy of Trump’s candidacy is that, embedded in his furious exhortations against Muslims and Mexicans and trade deals gone awry is a message...

21.07.2024 60

The Guardian

Kenan Malik