The idea of progress-at-any-cost of our age is unsustainable. Continued growth (both in terms of population and economy) is an impossibility on a finite planet. But yet we still cling on to the doctrine of progress and growth. Why? Because modern...
Won't active reading with its underlining, annotations, and cross-referencing slow down one's reading? Of course it does. And that is exactly the point. In order to benefit from reading one really needs to spend the time immersed in the text and swim among its ideas and concepts. The text is not the end. It is the beginning of a journey beyond.
Your favourite book for 2019 is: Hearts Turn: Sinners, Seekers, Saints and the Road to Redemption By Michael Sugich
Decades from now, people will look back and mark this book as the beginning of a change in Singapore society. Teo You Yenn has given voice to a whole body of academic work – both hers and those of her...
