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Philosophy at half-past three
Early last week, a fifteen-year-old boy, one I’ve considered a son, wept after he paid me a visit early in the afternoon of Monday. He messaged me sometime half past midnight. Thinking that his mother would approve, he related snapshots of our six-hour-long...
‘It feels like 1972 again’
I remember the political and social landscape of the time all too well.
The previous months saw an increasingly restless activism take on line after line of riot police in an attempt to warn the public of a looming dictatorship. The engagements had been...
‘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...
