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Kenan Malik

Born

in Secunderabad, India

January 26, 1960

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http://www.kenanmalik.com

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Sociology, Ethnicity, Ethics

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Indian-born British writer, lecturer and broadcaster, trained in neurobiology and the history of science. As an academic author, his focus is on the philosophy of biology, and contemporary theories of multiculturalism, pluralism and race. These topics are core concerns in The Meaning of Race (1996), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000) and Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008).

Malik's work contains a forthright defence of the values of the 18th-century Enlightenment, which he sees as having been distorted and misunderstood in more recent political and scientific thought. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2010 ...more

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OPERA, ELITISM AND THE WORKING CLASS

This is the opening to my essay on the forgotten relationship between opera and the working class, published in the Observer on 12 October 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. “Opera and ballet will be at the heart of the culture of many people who live in London and the south of England”, former Conservative minister Jake Berry (now a member of Reform UK) once told parliament. “Bu Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 4.07 · 1,245 ratings · 163 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics 4.15 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 2014 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Fatwa to Jihad 4.04 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics 4.20 avg rating — 138 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Multiculturalism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Diversity after 9/11 3.69 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate 3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man, Beast, and Zombie: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us about Human Nature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Meaning of Race: Race, History, and Culture in Western Society 4.21 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	En busca del presente. Veinte años de ensayo y pensamiento contemporáneo en la revista Letras Libres by Isaiah Berlin, Jorge Carrión, Sara Mesa 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate)] [Author: Kenan Malik] published on (June, 2009) by Kenan Malik, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[The Meaning of Race: Race, History, and Culture in Western Society] [By: Malik, Kenan] [August, 1996] by Kenan Malik, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“As universities have turned into businesses, so students have turned into consumers.”
― Kenan Malik

tags: capitalism, consumerism, education, ethics, society, university

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“Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.”
― Kenan Malik, The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

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“Jesus reveals salvation, as the Marxist critic and occasional atheist Terry Eagleton observes, to be a matter not ‘of cult, law and ritual’, but of ‘feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich’.”
― Kenan Malik, The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics

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