Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.