by Kris Kong | Jan 22, 2019 | By Kishore Mahbubani
If liberals want to defeat populists, there is only one route: regain the trust of the voters that form much of their base. The choice for liberals is clear: they can feel good by condemning their opponents, or they can do good by attacking the elite interests that...
by Kris Kong | Jan 20, 2019 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Dear Mr Rajaratnam, You have been a strong and silent source of inspiration for me all my life, pushing me to go beyond the normal boundaries and comfort zones that we would like to wrap ourselves in. Your enormous political courage was the biggest source of...
by Kris Kong | Jul 30, 2018 | By Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani, Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and author of Has the West Lost It?: George Orwell once famously remarked that “to see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” This aptly...
by Kris Kong | Jun 18, 2018 | Book Reviews
Kishore Mahbubani is a public intellectual from Singapore, where he teaches public policy at the national university. He has a long track-record of criticising western powers. His latest book, however, expresses the hope that they might finally stick live up to their...
by Kris Kong | Jun 7, 2018 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Veteran diplomat and philosophical provocateur Kishore Mahbubani in his new book asks a question that has crossed many minds of late: “Has the West lost it?” If “it” is the dominant position of Europeans and North Americans in the world, then yes. The rest of the...
