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‘Independence: An Endangered Species’
The title of this essay once graced the maiden issue of the Philippines Graphic. It was our June 18, 1990 issue, nearly twenty years after the magazine closed shop due to the widespread campaign against the press during Marcos’ martial law.
Under its new...
Steal it with a kiss
The huge hall brimmed with people, and not by the threat of any Category 5 storm. No, it was Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s first official visit to South Korea. The last stop of the three-day affair: a meet-and-greet session with Sokor’s Filipino overseas...
Duterte’s doctrine of diplomacy
There is a time for diplomacy. There is a time for courage. And the wisest of all individuals is the one who can wield diplomacy and courage simultaneously.
The last several months saw Pres. Rodrigo Duterte spewing some of the most unacceptable statements in...
My dimsum rhapsody
I am gravely offended by a meme that made the rounds of social media recently. It’s a meme that is both stupid and dangerous. It puts the lives of the Filipino-Chinese community in serious jeopardy.
The meme, in summary, implicitly says that any person...
Are Filipinos on the brink of becoming stateless?
Originally penned six years after the Second World War, Hannah Arendt’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism speaks to us today with uncanny clarity.
In Chapter Nine of the book, today considered as a tour de force in the study of totalitarian governments following the...
The World Needs Poets by Joel Pablo Salud
On the morning of May 6, 2018, after a riveting night at Wordello 2.0 at Casa Real in Taguig, I woke up to a world orphaned by a great Filipino poet: National Artist Cirilo F. Bautista.
I guess we all knew it would happen...
