In her renowned work, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt famously asserted – which has almost become a cliché – that it was ‘thoughtlessness’ rather than inherit evilness that forced Eichmann to carry out those barbaric orders in such a mechanical manner. The notions that Arendt raised several decades ago seems like are still quite relevant...
In a recent opinion piece published few weeks ago by Yaqoob Khan Bangash in Express Tribune newspaper with a similar title, he asserted that Pakistan has become an anti-intellectual nation. His reference point was the conference that his university organized that neither the student nor several journalists and academics bothered or cared to join –...