The following post was written on my personal blog, the day before I enlisted into National Service (NS), a two year conscription military service every male citizen of Singapore has to go through. Exactly two years later, and recently out…
Category: Democracy
IFLRY Online Meeting on South Africa
IFLRY Online is IFLRY’s new initiative to allow liberals from all over the world to interact with each other more online. In that spirit, IFLRY Vice President Nickolas Pagonakis is organising regular online seminars, in which different people in the…
IFLRY Online Meeting on Venezuela
IFLRY Online is IFLRY’s new initiative to allow liberals from all over the world to interact with each other more online. In that spirit, IFLRY Vice President Nickolas Pagonakis is organising regular online seminars, in which different people in the…
At Long Last… The Lebanese Prepare for Parliamentary Elections
Last October, the Lebanese parliament elected a new president ending a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum that had crippled the functioning of the government. Just over six months later, Lebanon was drifting into yet another political crisis that could leave the country…
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The Lack of Young People’s Representation Is a Problem For Democracy
A prerequisite for democracy is the freedom of speech and expression. Even though this is widely acknowledged, we sometimes forget the whole picture. The representation of all groups in a society is not only important for the conversation climate and…
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What the Lee Family Dispute Says About Singapore’s Politics
Singapore has been hit by political scandal. Yes, that clean, quiet, stable, protest-free city state; the one that’s supposedly good for business because there’s no political unrest and no independent trade unions. That Singapore. Yet, if you listened to the…
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If You Were Catalan..?
While travelling abroad and attending international events, I’ve encountered a range of different views about the Catalan independence process. Many are well-informed and sympathetic, however a few compare Catalonia’s with other struggles for independence – that may seem similar at…
The Culture of Freedom
Ver abajo para la versión en Español de este artículo./ See below for the Spanish version of this article. For most of its recent history, Latin America has been the cradle of the cruellest face of collectivism. From fascist dictatorships…
How Ukrainians Today Are Developing a Democratic Mindset
Ukraine, the largest country in Europe, gained its independency from the USSR in 1991. It is undebatable that the country is still going through a difficult transition period from a Soviet republic to independent and powerful state, following significant changes…
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What Bulgarians Fear About Tomorrow’s Referendum in Turkey
Виж по-долу за българската версия на тази статия. / See below for the Bulgarian version of this article. Allow me to briefly share what provoked me to write this article: I will not write about the things that every political…
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