Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 10: The Sign of the Dollar (Part 2) - Dagny's Choice

Part II ends with one of the most intense sequences in the entire novel. Dagny and Owen Kellogg are walking along the tracks in the dead of night, the Comet abandoned behind them, and what starts as a simple hike to a phone turns into something much bigger. This is where the dollar sign cigarettes finally get their explanation. And this is where Dagny makes a choice that sends her flying, literally, into Part III.

Feb 01, 2020
50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

Little Red Specks in the United Nations

Ask someone what a UN worker looks like and they will probably describe a diplomat at a cocktail party in New York. The reality, especially for the people in this chapter, is more like 700 trucks driving food through the Ethiopian desert to millions of starving people.

Jan 31, 2020
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 10: The Sign of the Dollar (Part 1) - Galt's Gulch Revealed

This is the last chapter of Part II, and it’s a big one. Rand uses it as a hinge between the world that’s falling apart and the secret world that explains why. Everything that’s been building for nine chapters reaches a turning point here. We start on a dying train and end somewhere nobody expected to go.

Jan 31, 2020
50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

Sharing Singapore's Education Success With Africa

It started with a casual conversation about textbooks. It ended with 115 African policymakers visiting Singapore, a major conference in Tunisia, and four published books. That is how knowledge sharing works when the right people get involved.

Jan 30, 2020
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 9: The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt - Chasing the Destroyer

This is the final chapter of Part II. And it hits like a freight train. Three separate emotional collisions happen in this chapter, and by the end Rand has lit every fuse she’s been laying for hundreds of pages.

Jan 30, 2020
50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

Fighting Poverty Through Tech at the World Bank

Can a mobile app help farmers sell their crops? Can slaughterhouse waste power a kitchen stove? These are the kinds of problems that infoDev at the World Bank works on. And the person running the whole thing is a Singaporean.

Jan 29, 2020
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 8: By Our Love - Dagny Returns to the Railroad

This chapter is built like a trap. Dagny spends a month in the woods trying to let go of the railroad. She almost makes it. Then the radio announces the tunnel disaster, and she runs back before Francisco can even finish his sentence. The chapter title is “By Our Love,” and that’s exactly the weapon being used against her.

Jan 29, 2020
50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

Singapore's Rise and the World Bank

Most countries that work with the World Bank stay borrowers for decades. Singapore borrowed for about ten years, then basically stopped needing the money. That is the short version of this chapter.

Jan 28, 2020
50 Years of Singapore and the United Nations

A Singaporean Helping Refugees Around the World

Janet Lim joined UNHCR in 1980. She spent over three decades working on refugee crises around the world. And she says something that’s hard to argue with: humanitarian work is probably the area where Singapore has been the least engaged with the UN.

Jan 28, 2020
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 7: The Moratorium on Brains (Part 2) - The Tunnel Disaster

This is the single most devastating sequence in Atlas Shrugged. I’ve read a lot of novels. I grew up reading Soviet literature where grim endings are basically a genre requirement. And nothing prepared me for the Taggart Tunnel disaster. Not because of the death toll, but because Rand makes you watch every single decision that leads to it. Every coward, every buck-passer, every man who chose not to think.

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Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 10: The Sign of the Dollar (Part 2) - Dagny's Choice

Little Red Specks in the United Nations

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Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 9: The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt - Chasing the Destroyer

Fighting Poverty Through Tech at the World Bank

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Singapore's Rise and the World Bank

A Singaporean Helping Refugees Around the World

Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 7: The Moratorium on Brains (Part 2) - The Tunnel Disaster

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