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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...
Command Responsibility vs. Commanding Irresponsibility
To be goaded to question a legal decision is one thing; to be reduced to a speechless wreck is another.
This, apparently, is where the train slammed against the tree: When I read a Philippine Daily Inquirer report saying that the Department of Justice...
Federalism: How other countries did it (Conclusion)
What is federalism?
It’s word that needs to be properly defined especially with the current moves to amend the Constitution, a move that is being pushed by President Rodrigo Duterte and his allies in Congress.
Changing the country’s form of government is a promise that...
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,...
