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“We Build The Wall To Keep Us Free”: Hadestown and How Greek Tragedy Manifests Today
"'Hadestown' Isn't Your Typical Retelling Of An Ancient Greek Myth" "'Hadestown' Isn't Your Typical Retelling Of An Ancient Greek Myth"
Lauren Cheung
6 days ago7 min read


Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
Indonesia entered the courtroom because the fires burned within its borders. But when the final verdict is delivered, shouldn't the ones standing trial be those who allowed them to burn?
Ellen Widargo
6 days ago6 min read


When Taiwan Starts Speaking Like China
Image from Taiwanese Secrets, 'What languages do people speak in Taiwan?' Image from Taiwanese Secrets, 'What languages do people speak in Taiwan?'
Ingrid Tang
Oct 317 min read


Mythmaking and underlying racism the American media had propagated in the time of the AVG
What role do volunteer forces play in shaping international conflict? How was the union of America and China against imperialist Japan through the employment of guerilla airforce warfare interpreted by both parties? For one, it created a shockwave of morale that reverberated through the souls of civilians. For another, it meant that the achievements of the Flying Tigers epitomised U.S. superiority in technological advancements, presenting the Americans as valiant, whilst the
Alicia Ying
Oct 206 min read


Stars (The anthropocene reviewed)
We gave meaning to stars— They carry way more than they are supposed to. It was us, mankind, who have disrupted them from their remote ruminations. In apology-I give those giant hydrogen balls 4 stars.
Carrie Chen
Oct 202 min read


Before Sex Comes Brotherhood
The language through which young men now rank one another makes the fraternity’s informal hierarchy unusually easy to recognise outside the fraternity house. To “mog” another man, in the vocabulary popularised through looksmaxxing communities and more recently through influencers such as Clavicular, is to defeat him through the visible superiority of one’s face, height or physique. The term is usually deployed jokingly, sometimes to the point of absurdity, but its humour depe
Ingrid Tang
Oct 177 min read


“I’m Not Racist, You’re Just Poor”: Class as the Singaporean Language of Race
Modern Singapore was constructed around two promises that were intended, at least in principle, to prevent the circumstances of birth from determining an individual's place in society. The first was multiracialism. Emerging from a region in which communal politics had repeatedly produced political conflict, and from its own experience of serious racial violence in the 1960s, the newly independent state rejected the proposition that Singapore belonged principally to its Chines
Ingrid Tang
Sep 278 min read


Should we fear a cashless society?
The question is not primarily whether a society can be trusted with a new power, but whether it should be designed to need that trust initially.
Yunshu Yang
Sep 278 min read
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