The Diacritic

The name, The Diacritic, refers to the diacritical punctuation marks added to letters (as in the accent in á). It is also a play on “critic,” as we are critics—not only of the topics we are exploring, but also of the way we imagine what research is for. The Yale-NUS Society for Academic Research (YNSAR), our parent organisation, was founded to empower research. Yet, research remains inaccessible for most and fails to inform public discourse in Singapore. The Diacritic is the magazine that reimagines the forms research can take: rigorous, well-supported, yet empathetic in telling the stories of Asia and the world. As a diacritical mark that alters the sound and meaning of a word, so too does The Diacritic accent contemporary discourse by accentuating critical perspectives. Big questions, provocations, original ideas—we have them all, in a voice of our own.