Zhengping

Singaporeans love Halloween horror, but we have forgotten its original purpose. Beyond commercial scares, the season calls us to confront our mortality, honour those who came before, and ask what makes a life worth living.

The recent AWARE Singapore survey claims to expose widespread misogyny among men. However, a closer reading of the data reveals ambiguous questions, selective summaries, and unproven leaps toward national policy reform.

A year after Charlie Kirk's murder, media commentary continues to background the killer while scrutinising the victim's ideology. When local Singaporean outlets adopt foreign partisan frames, political violence becomes quietly rationalised. True journalistic integrity requires keeping the killer's agency in plain view and condemning violence without qualification.

Achievement pressure in Singapore often creates competent performers rather than resilient men. To navigate adulthood, work, and relationships, young men require intentional moral and practical formation. A father is the first, most accountable man in his son's life to provide this essential foundation; academic success cannot replace character.

Singapore routinely dismisses conservative principles as backward, importing Western culture-war caricatures. Yet our survival as a vulnerable small state relies on the very elements of pragmatic conservatism—from fiscal discipline to social cohesion—built directly into our national policy architecture.

Family caregiving is the invisible backbone keeping Singapore running, yet our policies treat it as a private burden rather than a public responsibility. This article exposes the deep structural flaws in our current system and outlines a new blueprint for supporting caregivers.