Re-reading Asra Q. Nomani, 2023, Woke Army: The Red-Green Alliance That Is Destroying America’s Freedom.
By Khaled Salih
Daniel Pearl and Asra Nomani in Karachi in 2001. Courtesy Asra Nomani
I recently watched an interview with the fearless Asra Q. Nomani on the New Zionist Times podcast. Watching her recount her memory (a Muslim woman) of a friendship with colleague Daniel Pearl (a Jewish man) forced me to re-read her recently published book.
One Species. Three Histories. One Unfinished Question. Human beings built the pyramids, organized Auschwitz, and reached the Moon. The same species. Extraordinary intelligence. Radically different purposes. What explains this?
By Khaled Salih 18 October 2026 Some books answer questions. Others make the questions harder to abandon. Michael Shermer’s Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters belongs to the second kind. It asks us to defend something both elementary and increasingly difficult: that
What connects Kurdish political freedom, religious certainty, institutional failure, rational criticism, and the open future? The books presented on OTHERWISE investigate how human beings create explanations, how some explanations become protected against criticism, and how knowledge and freedom can open possibilities that previously appeared closed. The library brings together five
Vad tror sig kommittén faktiskt belöna? Är priset ett erkännande av prestation eller ett försök att påverka framtiden? Publiserad 14 Oktober 2026 Jag blev arg när årets Nobels fredspris tillkännagavs. Men ilska är inget argument, så jag försökte i stället förstå vad jag egentligen reagerade på. Det handlade inte bara