Editor’s Corner

  One word describes 2018: exhausting. It was exhausting because of its politics. It was exhausting for its excesses. It was exhausting due to its wanton and gratuitous display of impunity. The larger perspective offers only cold comfort. The world is teetering toward totalitarian rule. Human...

To partake in the body politic of the nation, each national must rise and remain in constant rebellion against himself.   — Hannah Arendt, “On Revolution” France, May 1968. It was the month of the Paris riots. The massive protest actions, which led to a countrywide...

I believe we, Filipinos, deserve a break. A break from what, you ask? Well, a long break from the status quo. To those uninitiated with the Latin phrase, it means, in a sociological sense, our existing state of affairs, and the values and...

As early as Sept. 2017, I received an email informing me that I was recommended to be part of a group which was soon to be formed: originally named Academia Filipina. Months went by and I didn’t hear from any of them again....

When I think of the Chinese, immediately I’m transported to this old restaurant, The Rice Bowl. It once stood somewhere in Ongpin, Binondo. There, my family and I spent our supper during weekends. I looked forward to such treats as a child for...

Try as I might, it’s difficult to imagine a Filipino consumed by anger and resentment. I’ve lived long enough to witness the Filipino’s sense of shame, which is far greater than his reasons for personal indignation. Not that we are incapable of the slightest...