Culture & Media

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.

Mediacorp recently awarded "Most Social Good" to a podcast episode discussing the mechanics of unprotected anal sex. This decision highlights a glaring regulatory loophole: while national television remains strictly regulated to protect youth, the digital arms of state-funded broadcasters operate in a legal grey zone. Are our media policies coherent, or is one arm of the state rewarding the very content another arm is working to restrict?

A viral video of a five-month-old baby crying for his mother, while being told by his father that she does not exist. A haunting starting point for a deeper look at commercial surrogacy and same-sex parenting.

When a professional athlete is waived not for a lack of competence or physical readiness, but for articulating a traditional moral framework, the institution has stopped being a neutral judge of excellence. It has...

Euthanasia is sold as compassion, but it's killing by another name. Singapore must choose dignity through care, not convenience through death.

Think kids just need love? We explain why every child has a right to their mum and dad, and why it matters.

Think marriage doesn’t matter? We’re already seeing what happens when it's destroyed, and how we all end up paying for it.

Think having kids is a burden? You’re not alone. But what if freedom means embracing limits, not avoiding them?