Fresh Facts, and Opinions, this week: from a robot to the circus, civilization’s clash to Pakistan’s madness
Attend to the Real Clash of Civilizations, by Tom Regan, Summoning Orenda F&O column “Am I my brother’s keeper?” How you answer this question tells a great deal about you as a person and about the kind of society in which you would like to live. And the great clash of civilization is between tolerance and intolerance. Pakistan’s long road to the Lahore bombing, by Jonathan Manthorpe, International Affairs F&O column The Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Lahore, which was aimed at Christians but killed and maimed mostly Muslims, is a gruesome metaphor for the religious madness that has consumed Pakistan