
Yale-NUS Lecture on Global Affairs: ‘How Democracies Die: Lessons for the Future’ by Professor Daniel Ziblatt
Click to enlarge I attended a Talk by Professor Daniel Ziblatt the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University and co-author of the New York Times bestseller "How Democracies Die" (2018) earlier this evening. The talk was essentially about the tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism in...

This is what we should remember Chiam See Tong for
I’m glad for this article “The opposition used to be undesirable and unelectable, and Chiam has made it more acceptable to Singaporeans. He really revamped the whole opposition’s image and brought in credible candidates,” says Loke. “His contribution surpasses JBJ’s, in terms of changing the opposition’s image.” https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chiam-see-tong-changed-the-face-of-the-opposition-analyst-065549351.html As...

Has PAP’s greed and incompetence resulted in our citizens behaving like Third-world citizens?
I would like to share my thoughts about Prof. Tommy Koh's recent comments that Singapore is a first-world country with a third-world people. I agree with his observations. Bad behaviour among our citizens are not restricted to the older generations only. Over the last 50 years, we have educated generations of our citizens -...
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