Racial Harmony Day Singapore

Commendable 'No' to communalism

16 May 2012

President Mahinda Rajapaksa's rejection of communalism, besides clarifying the policy parameters within which the state operates on issues relating to the communities of this country, is a profoundly wise pronouncement which could help greatly in bringing healing and harmony to Sri Lanka.

Opinion split on S'pore model of 'benevolent dictatorship': Yahoo! poll

11 May 2012

Yahoo! users are split over whether Singapore’s model of governance should be an example for other countries, especially the United States, to follow.

Jim Sleeper: Yale Has Gone to Singapore, But Can It Come Back?

4 May 2012

Yale University sustained such a college for more than 300 years and, through it, the American republic, and for much of the time the republic led the world, but now Yale's captains have bound it contractually to an authoritarian corporate city state.