TR EMERITUS

Once upon a time, bubbles—especially social media ones—had negative connotations of wilful self-isolation, inbred ideas, and easy complacency. Bubbles produce only echo chambers, it was charged, mixed-metaphorically. The students at my New York private school, in discussions about the world, would remind each other that... 

COVID-19 has devastated the whole world with almost 4.9 million infected cases and 320,000 deaths since it started at Wuhan China in December 2019. Singapore is not spared. We have the highest infection rate in South East Asia with about 28,800 cases and 22 deaths, a relatively low death rate of mainly elderly people. In... 

One of the things that you can give right wing populist great credit for is the fact that they have the ability to inspire you. If I look at the stuff that I’ve written in the last two-years, I realise a lot of it has been inspired by the current Occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Whenever I needed inspiration to write...