Emad Ansari (Assistant Professor, SAHSOL) publishes an op-ed titled “IDEAS: FREE SPEECH AND ITS DISCONTENTS” in Dawn (June 28, 2020).
Last week, ThinkFest, a literature festival convened by the Information Technology University (ITU), hosted Niall Ferguson, an academic well known for his views on empire — those views being in favour of it. In particular, Ferguson celebrates the British Empire, arguing in favour of the benefits it brought to the places and people the British colonised, and providing a strange calculus for comparing and contrasting British colonialism with other empires past. The calculus, in his opinion, comes out in Britain’s benefit and our loss.
For details: https://www.dawn.com/news/1565608/ideas-free-speech-and-its-discontents
