The Leap Malaysia Needs to Make

On March 22, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, 72, the longest-serving member of the Malaysian Parliament and a Kelantan prince, spoke to a Petaling Jaya crowd to launch the second edition of a book, "No Cowardly Past, by James Puthucheary. The speech, however, while it referred to Puthucheary's book, was instead an extraordinary, wide-ranging critique of the cu…