Should the people be the greatest arbiters of political decision-making? Here I discuss the inherent paradox of both direct and representative democracy. How the rise of folk politics impairs the processes of the former and threatens to alienate the electorate from the political decision-making process in the latter.
Morphing into and from different forms, legibility is a force of nature that has flown under the radar for most of human history. What is legibility? Has its consequences brought out more bad than good? From the Enlightenment to High Modernism to Dataism, I explore the harm that this decoding and recoding force inflicts on the human condition.
The IAS Gazette is a news site run by undergraduates from the Singapore Institute of Management’s International Affairs Society (IAS). Founded in 2018, it traces its roots to The Capital, a now defunct bimonthly magazine previously under the IAS.
