KJ

I have followed the US presidential elections campaign from both parties’ early stages and caucuses all the way now to the coming presidential elections in November 2016. I have been amused with American popular media, and most of their advocates, or ‘surrogates’, as they are called. They are simply dumb or simply not honest enough. […]

My very good friend, an MBA classmate and public service senior, argues that no politician is always straight and truthful. To him, every subject matter a politician speaks is only valid on the date of issue. In this season’s US presidential elections campaign; for the whole year of coverage, my friend has actually been proven […]

I am amused about the rise of the next newer global gunslinger called the president of the Philippines. He has therefore been labelled the ‘Trump of Asia’. But is force what we need in Asia? With a history of being ‘a fighter for a good cause’, he has now risen to be the Philippine Official […]

Who is media accountable and responsible to, other than their owners and the civil laws of a land? Are they not also responsible to search for truth and publish all such truths; but, only after they understand all dimensions of that truth matter? Do we really agree with any current or mainstream view that media […]

All Malaysians do have and carry multiple identities; in fact, most human beings do. Role theory is a perspective in sociology and in social psychology that considers most everyday activities to be the acting out of socially defined categories (eg, mother, manager, teacher, and citizen). Each role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms […]

All human beings, as created others, in the nature and image of God, have a human conscience which defines their actions and determines both their dignity and destiny for the here and now, and for eternity. The above personal faith reality interprets my assumptions about the nature of human nature. The range of answers for […]

If citizenship, either in a family or clan, or geography, or a nation-state, defines us; then our sense of patriotism or love for that family or group or community is assumed to be primary and always presumed to define one’s loyalty. That loyalty, I think, is primary and must become our public but also declared […]

Premised upon my last three columns on patriotism, a small debate ensued on Facebook about whom or what defines good or great leadership. This column is my response to that query, but I would like to address it from a perspective of an RMC Old Putera, the alumni of the Royal Military College (RMC); our […]

It is said that history is written by winners. In the case of Malaysian history; it often looks like it is written by poor students of federation history; who are technically the losers or winners, depending who is looking at their glass of water. So, is this glass half-full versus half-empty merely conjecture and not […]

I attended a book launch on the ‘The End of Umno?’ because my good friend Saifuddin Abdullah wrote the foreword and invited me to attend. Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, the veteran Umno member and the best prime minister we never had; gave the keynote and launch address. The book has four chapters contributed by four authors, […]