The world, in perspective.

<p>IN the run-up to yesterday’s US <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2042019/democrats-win-us-congress-in-midterm-rout-of-trump">mid-term elections</a>, it became obvious that, almost four decades after the Cold War ended, the ‘spectre of communism’ Marx and Engels identified in the 19th century still haunts Western consciousness.</p> <p>Islamophobia might