The recent sighting in Sungei Buloh of the Rhinoceros hornbill, thought to be locally extinct, brought joy. It was a sobering reminder too, of what we’ve lost in our headlong, heedless rush toward modernity.
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Essays
What does the 38 Oxley Road saga reveal about us as a people?
Our natural tendency to allocate money (or any resource) into little mental “jars” has profound implications for how we spend and save.
Our first reader survey was in 2023 when we had over 3,000 members. With over 8,000 now, and the GE past us, we felt the time was right for another.
The recent Forward SG exercise hints at the radical promise of deliberative democracy in Singapore. Can we live up to it?
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Protector, surrogate parent, role model: is there anything an eldest daughter can’t do? Cherry Tan reads three new Singaporean books that examine sisterhood and daughterhood—Sister Snake, The Original Daughter, and The Story Game—and considers how eldest daughters might (re)write their own story.
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