The prime minister has promised to address the strains on family life in his National Day Rally speech. NESSA SWINN YAP and JACQUELINE HO argue that this requires embracing care as core to life and not allowing the market to turn the fulfilment of this human need into a rat race.
The experience with Gillman Barracks and Maju Forest reveals the Singapore public’s appetite for engaging closely with planning processes. There are clear lessons for how we can improve transparency and public participation, argues Melissa Low (National University of Singapore).
The blockbuster Dear You has sparked a wider debate over Chinese identity, exposing competing ideas of culture, language and belonging across China and Southeast Asia. In this article originally published in ThinkChina political scientist Chong Ja Ian (National University of Singapore) examines why.
Seamless progress can edit our lives away, cautions documentary filmmaker TAN PIN PIN, in a Commencement address for NUS College.
Economist NG KOK HOE explains how policies on public rental housing and migrant workers are based on a logic of discrimination that denies people’s common humanity. This article is based on his remarks at the “States of Unease” Public Forum.
Architectural historian YEO KANG SHUA critiques the unease written into Singapore’s fabric, and argues that conservation is a discipline of attention we can all practise. This essay is adapted from his remarks at the “States of Unease” Public Forum.
In a world inundated with data, literature helps us seek truth, argues poet POOJA NANSI. It is where we learn to be patient with difference and contradiction, and thus discover how to understand and live with one another. This article is based on her remarks at the “States of Unease” Public Forum 2026.
In his contribution to the “States of Unease” Public Forum 2026, media scholar CHERIAN GEORGE explored the idea of moral progress as a core objective of a good society. This essay elaborates on his argument.
At the “States of Unease” Public Forum 2026, sociologist TEO YOU YENN explained why Singaporeans should not think of the Government as the only relevant conversation partner if they want to change things. This article is based on her remarks at the event.
Historian THUM PING TJIN argues that The Albatross File Exhibition and its accompanying book turn Lee Kuan Yew from a historically consequential actor into a passive victim of circumstance, thus diminishing him. By trying to protect him from moral scrutiny, Singaporeans are given a comforting story instead of an educational one where power, fear, race, ambition, and moral compromise destroyed Malaysia.
