Mr. Bloomberg is scheduled to speak at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, named for the founder of modern Singapore, an autocrat of the first order. A public policy school bearing his name sounds as if it could be a cousin of the Vladimir V. Putin Open Society Institute, should such an enterprise come into being.
In 2010, Singapore courts ordered 3,170 people to be caned, according to the State Department’s human rights report for that country. Full story
