Essay

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax a la Yoda, who is probably the wisest mentor in nine galaxies. Expressed normally, the statement would not have made...

Poet Cirilo F. Bautista, way back in 1991, taught me his method of hunting books at a second hand bookshop. As we walked from the Siliman University campus to the bookshop outside the university grounds, he told me, “Tingnan natin sino sa atin ang...

An uncanny feeling of déjà vu pervades Executive Order No. 51 signed by Rodrigo Duterte this past Labor Day.  It says nothing new, its provisions virtually a re-hash of pertinent sections of the Labor Code.  Contractual employees who had pinned their hopes of...

If Rodrigo Duterte felt no compunction cussing out the Pope, it is unlikely he’ll be suffering pangs of conscience over ordering the deportation of a 71-year-old Australian nun.  Patricia Fox, a superior of the Notre Dame de Sion who has been living in...

“War cannot be reported as breaking news.” This was one reminder emphasized during a forum organized by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) in Quezon City recently. During the conference, Melinda Quintos de Jesus, the executive director of the CMFR, presented a study...

III. Surviving As an occupied country, the immediate postwar relief efforts for Hiroshima were saddled by inefficiency and a slow pace. Although there were many Americans who worked for the rehabilitation of Hiroshima, in some cases it appeared that there were other American efforts...