Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey. He is a presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the Moral Maze. His books include The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics (2014), From Fatwa to Jihad (2009), Strange Fruit (2008), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000), and The Meaning of Race (1996).
Malik was born in India, brought up in Manchester and now lives in London. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London). He was for a number of years a research psychologist at the Centre for Research into Perception and Cognition (CRPC) at the University of Sussex, working on problems of the mental representation of spatial relations. For the past decade, he has been an independent writer, lecturer, researcher and broadcaster.
Maahanmuutto ja ihmisten etninen karsinoiminen, 29.1.2014
Kenan Malik, Strange fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. Oneworld 2008.
Celebrating diversity or equality? by Marek Kohn, Eagle Street, June 1997
Diane Abbott draws Finns into British race debate, Eagle Street, March 1997
Shamima Begum and moral responsibility, Pandaemonium, 18 February 2019
The possibility of redemption is central to a humane society, The Observer, 17 February 2019
From book to fatwa, Pandaemonium, 12 February 2019
Doing violence to our rights, Pandaemonuim, 11 February 2019
Think you are British? Not if the Home Office says you’re not, The Observer, 11 February 2019
Plucked from the web #53 by Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 9 February 2019
Since when was it a police job to impose sanctions on drill musicians? The Observer, 9 February 2019
The corrosiveness of bullshit, Pandaemonuim, 4 February 2019
Bullshit, not lies, is the corrosive influence blighting our public life, The Observer, 2 February 2019
When demography becomes politics, Pandaemonuim, 28 January 2019
Demography is not destiny. Politics should be about winning minds, The Observer, 27 January 2019
Plucked from the web #52, Pandaemonuim, 26 January 2019
The art of condescension, Pandaemonium, 21 January 2019
Here’s me and the Mona Lisa. Who says that art and selfies can’t mix? The Observer, 19 January 2019
Socially polarised, politically paralysed, Pandaemonium, 14 January 2019
A divided Britain is not new. So why do today's schisms seem intractable? The Observer, 13 January 2019
Plucked from the web #51, Pandaemonium, 11 January 2019
Thw politics of the space race, Pandaemonium, 7 January 2019
Power politics always drives space conquest. China’s coup is no different, The Observer, 6 January 2019
A Bookish dozen for the New Year by Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 4 January 2019
Posh may be passé but contempt is not, Pandaemonium, 31 December 2018
Posh is so passé – today's elite prefers the myth of the meritocracy, The Observer, 30 December 2018
Open a cookery book to find the recipe for how cultures blend, The Observer, 30 December 2018
A year of Pandaemonium 2018, 29 December 2018
The incoherence of immigration policy, Pandaemonium, 24 December 2018
The new immigration proposals are economic and political nonsense, The Observer, 23 December 2018
The EU and the Italian job, Pandaemonium, 17 December 2018
Europe’s merciless treatment of Italy only hardens popular resentment, The Observer, 16 December 2018
We could all do with being a little less sure of ourselves, The Observer, 16 December 2018
Plucked from the web #50, Pandaemonium, 14 December 2018
A fear of cultural loss is fuelling anger with elites across Europe, The Observer, 9 December 2018
EU obsession with migration is shameful, racist and fatal, The Observer, 9 December 2018
Where does this bully get his ideas from? Pandaemonium, 3 December 2018
Don't dismiss gene editing on account of one rogue case, The Observer, 2 December 2018
I know all about being bullied by racists. That's the Britain I grew up in, The Observer, 1 December 2018
On the ethics of CRISPR, Pandaemonium, 30 November 2018
Disagreement is not hatred, Pandaemonium, 26 November 2018
Debate ends when we label views we simply disagree with as ‘hatred’, The Observer, 25 November 2018
The war on terror continues and still no one counts the costs, The Observer, 25 November 2018
Plicked from the web #49, Pandaemonium, 23 November 2018
Crowned with no false patriotic wreath, Pandaemonium, 19 November 2018
Patriotism is meaningless if it doesn't embrace acts of defiance, The Observer, 18 November 2018
Stand up and be counted if you want to start a debate, The Observer, 18 November 2018
Madness, madness, they call it gladness, Pandaemonium, 16 November 2018
Terrible crimes and tawdry debates, Pandaemonium, 12 November 2018
We’re told 84% of grooming gangs are Asian. But where’s the evidence, The Observer, 11 November 2018
Plucked from the web #48, Pandaemonium, 9 November 2018
Blood, soil and citizenship, Pandaemonium, 5 November 2018
Myths about shared culture have no place in the citizenship debate, The Observer, 4 November 2018
Blasphemy, religious and secular, Pandaemonium, 29 October 2018
None of us should enjoy the right to have our beliefs shielded from abuse, The Observer, 28 October 2018
A little message from Twitter, Pandaemonium, 26 October 2018
White identity is meaningless. Real dignity is found in shared hopes, The Observer, 21 October 2018
Turkey should look to its own brutal treatment of journalists, The Observer, 21 October 2018
Plucked from the web #47, Pandaemonium, 19 October 2018
Call yourself a ‘moderate'? You're just avoiding the need to make your case, The Observer, 14 October 2018
What's wrong with AI? Try asking a human being, The Observer, 14 October 2018
Politicians must shape public opinion, not follow it, The Observer, 7 October 2018
As global poverty declines, we should beware the new class wars, The Observer, 6 October 2018
Otis Rush and Chicago blues, Pandaemonium, 5 October 2018
Housing ban on asylum seekers gives the far right a veto on where they live, The Observer, 30 September 2018
The Satanic Verses sowed the seeds of rifts that have grown ever wider, The Observer, 29 September 2018
Plucked from the web #46, Pandaemonium, 28 September 2018
Racial equality once meant tearing down barriers, not doing a DNA test, The Observer, 23 September 2018
Women, not politicians, should control their bodies, The Observer, 23 September 2018
A censorship less visible, Pandaemonium, 22 September 2018
Free speech, culture and identity: A German interview, Pandaemonium, 14 September 2018
Sweden’s shift to the right has been decades in the making, The Observer, 9 September 2018
Condemning all debate with Bannon amounts to giving up on politics, The Observer, 9 September 2018
Plucked from the web by Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 7 September 2018
If we want to build trust in society, a new treason law is no way to do it, The Observer, 29 July 2018
Plucked from the web #43, Pandaemonium, 27 July 2018
Hope and fear in a world of uncertainty,
Unions are too vital to democracy to be allowed to gentrify and die, The Observer, 3 June 2018
Roseanne Barr's tweet inspired intolerance on both sides, The Observer, 3 June 2018
opular anger and the repackaging of power, Pandaemonium, 28 May 2018
ore than one way of being reactionary, Pandaemonium, 14 May 2018
Are rightwing black people traitors to the cause? Of course they're not, The Observer, 13 May 2018
Our new working class needs help with new struggles, The Observer, 13 May 2018
he muddle over the ‘gay cake', Pandaemonium, 7 May 2018
The Lords has no place in a genuine democracy, The Observer, 6 May 2018
The ‘gay cake' fight: why the bakers had a right to refuse this order, The Observer, 6 May 2018
orality, the law and the death of a child, Pandaemonium, 30 April 2018
Plucked from the web #37, Pandaemonium, 27 April 2018
Elite racism and the working class as alibi, Pandaemonium, 23 April 2018
Elites still use the working class as an excuse for their own prejudices, The Guardian, 22 April 2018
Remembering the death of Joy Gardner, Pandaemonium, 20 April 2018
On the assassination of Katie Hopkins, Pandaemonium, 15 April 2018
A different American language, Pandaemonium, 13 April 2018
The lost legacies of Malcolm and Martin, Pandaemonium, 9 April 2018
Plucked from the web #36, Pandaemonium, 6 April 2018
Yes, we've lost our faith in God, but we've lost our faith in reason too, The Observer, 1 April 2018
The meaning of heritage in an age of identity, Pandaemonium, 30 March 2018
Should offence be banned? or hate? Pandaemonium, 25 March 2018
Even those with the vilest of views have the right to be heard, The Guardian, 18 March 2018
What is education for? Pandaemonium, 18 March 2018
Plucked from the web #35, Pandaemonium, 15 March 2018
The working class, immigration & the left, Pandaemonium, 11 March 2018
Ethics and sport have long been strangers to one another, The Guardian, 11 March 2018
Thinking allowed on the white working class, Pandaemonium, 2 March 2018 (audio)
The need for an intelligent debate about artificial intelligence, Pandaemonium, 24 February 2018
Plucked from the web #34, Pandaemonium, 23 February 2018
Cinematic fantasies and political fairy tales, Pandaemonium, 18 February 2018
Trump Wants British Libel Laws. America Does Not, The New York Times, 13 February 2018
Fake news and the gatekeepers of truth, Pandaemonium, 11 February 2018
100 days behind bars, Pandaemonium, 9 February 2018
Immigration and cultural loss, Pandaemonium, 4 February 2018
That working-class lives are more fraught is not down to immigration, The Guardian, 4 February 2018
Plucked from the web #33 by Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, 2 February 2018
On justice and vengeamce, Pandaemonium, 28 January 2018
Why Brexit has made us more relaxed about immigration, The Guardian, 28 January 2018
The great British Empire debate, Pandaemonium, 26 January 2018
Red scares and millenial rage, Pandaemonium, 22 January 2018
The love felt for Cyrille Regis as the bigots stood beside me, The Guardian, 21 January 2018
Letter from Osman Kavala, Pandaemonium, 18 January 2018
Plucked from the web #32, Pandaemonium, 14 January 2018
Back to school on race and class, Pandaemonium, 7 January 2018
Plucked from the web #31, Pandaemonium, 28 December 2017
Too polarised or not enough? Pandaemonoum, 24 December 2017
What to Get Theresa May for Christmas, The New York Times, 20 December 2017
The Truth about ‘Cultural Appropriation', Art Review, December 2017
Plucked from the wer #30, Pandaemonium, 10 December 2017
The art & politics of cultural appropriation, Pandaemonium, 8 December 2017
Less a debate than political trolling, Pandaemonium, 3 December 2017
In search of the common good, Pandaemonium, 23 November 2017
Plucked from the web #29, Pandaemonium, 19 November 2017
The human lens of Mel Rosenthal, Pandaemonium, 12 November 2017
In Spain, democracy and law are being reduced to hollow shells, The Observer, 5 November 2017
What is right? What is left? by Kenan Malik and others, Pandaemonium, 2 November 2017 (video)
Plucked from the web #28, Pandaemonium, 29 Otober 2017
In support of Osman Kavala, Pandaemonium, 26 October 2017
From The Satanic Verses to Charlie Hebdo, Pandaemonium, 19 October 2017
The piano ain't got no wrong notes, Pandaemonium, 15 October 2017 (text and videos)
Plucked from the web #27, Pandaemonium, 12 October 2017
Light and grace in Istanbul, Pandaemonium, 8 October 2017
Populism and immigration, Pandaemonium, 5 October 2017
Silence, romanticism and the debate on indigenous rights, Pandaemonium, 2 October 2017
Plucked from the web #26, Pandaemonium, 28 September 2017
The moral tightrope, Pandaemonium, 24 September 2017
Appropriating confusion, Pandaemonium, 20 September 2017
In a society too short of common goals, identity politics are an imperfect answer by Kenan Malik, The Observer, 17 September 2017
Plucked from the web #25, Pandaemonium, 14 September 2017
The New Voice of Indigenous Australia, The New York Times, 11 September 2017
Fostering row exposes how words fail us when we talk about Muslims in Britain, The Observer, 3 September 2017
Plucked from the web #24, Pandaemonium, 31 August 2017
Plucked from the web #23, Pandaemonium, 20 August 2017
On morality and its history, Pandaemonium, 10 August 2017
Death and moral confusion, Pandaemonium, 6 August 2017
The beauty in the bleakness, Pandaemonium, 30 July 2017
Plucked from the web #22, Pandaemonium, 27 July 2017
Not all politics is identity politics, Pandaemonium, 23 July 2917
Charlie Gard and our moral confusions, Pandaemonium, 20 July 2917
Sartre on Giacometti, Pandaemonium, 16 July 2917
Plucked from the web #21, Pandaemonium, 13 July 2017
Cultural appropriation and secular blasphemy, Pandaemonium, 9 July 2017
Gilroy and Reed on race, class & culture, Pandaemonium, 6 July 2917
How culture came to approåriate race, Pandaemonium, 2 July 2017
Plucked from the web #20, Pandaemonium, 25 June 2017
For common values, against patriotism, Pandaemonium, 21 June 2017
The Luminous art of Khadija Saye, Pandaemonium, 18 June 2017
In Defense of Cultural Appropriation, The New York Times, 14 June 2017
The making of the Muslim world, Pandaemonium, 12 June 2017
Post-election, new questions, Pandaemonium, 9 June 2017
On those ‘difficult conversations', Pandaemonium, 5 June 2017
Plucked from the web #19, Pandaemonium, 1 June 2017
From left radicalism to radical Islamism, Pandaemonium, 28 May 2017
The Jihadi State of Mind, The New York Times, 24 May 2017
Rigged labour market, skewed public debate, Pandaemonium, 21 May 2017
A world with too little empathy– or too much? Pandaemonium, 18 May 2017
Plucked from the web #18, Pandaemonium, 14 May 2017
The challenge of the jihadi frame of mind, Pandaemonium, 11 May 2017
Derek Walcott inside the ruins, Pandaemonium, 4 May 2017
The changing face of Harlem, Pandaemonium, 30 April 2017
Plucked from he web #17, Pandaemonium, 27 April 2017
Never say this is the final road for you, Pandaemonium, 23 April 2017
The Foregone Conclusion of Britain's Election, The New York Times, 19 April 2017
The epic of American Civilization, Pandaemonium, 16 April 2017
Free speech and unsafe spaces, Pandaemonium, 10 April 2017
Ideological violence and sociopathic rage, Pandaemonium, 26 March 2017
Thou shalt not give offence, Pandaemonium, 23 March 2017
The void where an opposition should be, Pandaemonium, 15 March 2017
It's not me, it's the monster, Pandaemonium, 8 March 2017
Grasping diversity, embracing democracy, Pandaemonium, 5 March 2017
Britain’s Absent Opposition, The New York Times, 24 February 2017
A litlde alternative reading, Pandaemonium, 23 February 2017
Decolonizing our minds? Pandaemonium, 19 February 2017
Revolutionary art, but a mess of a show, Pandaemonium, 16 February 2017
Why update From Fatwa to Jihad? Pandaemonium, 9 February 2017
Not post-truth as too many 'truths', Pandaemonium, 5 February 2017
Let America be America again, Pandaemonium, 19 January 2017 (poems)
In Tristram Hunt's future fiefdom, Pandaemonium, 15 January 2017
Fake news and worst solutions, Pandaemonium, 11 January 2017
A crisis of democracy or of liberalism? Pandaemonium, 4 January 2017
A year of Pandaemonium, Pandaemonium, 1 January 2017