As war wages on in Ukraine, American president Joe Biden leans on reluctant NATO allies in Europe, long dependent on Russian gas, to stand w...

Almost a month ago, Singapore celebrity historian Dr Thum Ping Tjin met Dr Mahathir with his fellow New Narratif founders Kirsten Han and So...

Almost two weeks ago, Singapore historian Dr Thum Ping Tjin, together with Sonny Liew, Kirsten Han, and Jolovan Wham, met with Malaysian pri...

A democratic and liberal housecleaning is possible in Malaya Having won an unprecedented election, Tun Dr Mahathir's new administra...

As events have proven, Dr Thum Ping Tjin made an unreasonable, ill-considered, and indefensible claim in his submission to the fake news Sel...

The concept of fake news can be challenged by applying various strands of communications theory from both journalistic practice and academia...

Can we remember Lee Kuan Yew without creating a cult? A statue of Turkmenbashi, not a statue of Lee Kuan Yew

Recep Tayyip Erdogan will make Turkey great again! Mr Recep Erdogan has been organising, in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austri...

Yes, the Syonan Gallery has been renamed to the less offensive and traumatising " Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legac...

The Omnishambles so far... On 10 February 2017, Singapore's National Library Board (NLB) unveiled the new name for the Old Ford ...

In our "Rise of the anti-intellectual, illiberal left" category, the question is: Which of the following did not happen this wee...

Taiwan Review has published a few excerpts from Loh Kah Seng's new book, Squatters into Citizens . Followers of the Living with Myths ...

Being a review of the 5th in a year-long series of seminars What sort of counter-narrative can an academic conjure? Would it be just as ...

Being a review of the 4th in a year-long series of seminars The previous Living with Myth seminars showed that despite exuberant accusatio...

Being a review of the 3rd in a year-long series of seminars Even as the Singapore state and its proxies in academia and the newsroom charg...

Being a review of the second in a year-long series of seminars As a counterhegemonic project to the PAP's master narrative of Singapor...

Will East Timor be allowed to join ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian nations)? Its application is sponsored by Indonesia , its form...

Groundwork to Rethinking Secularism II What does it mean to talk about the radicalisation and self-radicalisation of Christians in Singapore...

Was vaguely aware of the Army Half-marathon run on Sunday; I had to wait twice as long for my bus to come from Marina. It turns out that a 2...

Ruminations from the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere They say a great idea never dies; it is merely adopted by others. In Europe, the...