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A man in a man’s world
Time and again, we’ve seen and been told what it was like for a woman to live in a man’s world. Allow me, therefore, to rephrase the question: what’s it like for this man, meaning me, one raised by women, to live in...
The fall of the house of writer
I woke up last week, the 24th of January, faced with a world where my hero-writer Ursula K. Le Guin is dead.
It was the first bit of news I received when I opened my tablet to check the time. I strolled past the...
The genius that is free speech
In the end, freedom needs no logic, no reason. It is man’s fate, his ultimate destiny. There is no insurmountable barrier to this desire to be free. No dictator’s lash, no tyrant’s sword can halt this striving for it is man’s pre-determined purpose,...
Train of thought: Taxes versus corruption
Death and taxes, the two most common occurrences on this benighted planet, are also the most mysterious and inexplicable—respectively.
Let’s face it. Death comes regardless of our body’s ability to renew itself. It takes but a matter of days for blood, bone, skin, muscle,...
In the race toward the Graphic centennial
“he need for independent, courageous, trustworthy journalism is as great as it’s ever been.”—G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times
Reading Sulzberger’s New Year’s message in The New York Times reminds me of my own introduction to the Philippines Graphic as its editor...
Time and the road we are on
I have come to terms that the world I once knew—that carefree, brutally nuanced yet distinctly unafraid, sun-kissed planet—is no more.
I didn’t see it coming. It’s as if some ancient alien circulated a memo while I was out for a cig. I didn’t...
