Culture & Media

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.

Singapore’s record-low fertility rate is treated as a financial friction point to be solved with subsidies and housing perks. But when young adults view the future with dread and childlessness as an unencumbered lifestyle, cash grants cannot repair a broken intergenerational contract.

When does artistic licence cross the line into religious offence? The recent approval of Jesus Christ Superstar in Singapore highlights a historical inconsistency in how the state protects different faiths. We examine the shifting boundaries of the sacred.

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...

We throw the word “rights” around a lot. But how do you know if something really is one? Start here.