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Reminiscing the inhuman in humans

That night, the soup tasted of corpses.  ~ Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, “Night” I waited for this thin volume to arrive for nearly a month. It was a book I have longed to read: Night by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. I stumbled...
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Deconstructing the mythologeme of the contemporary

One of the most contentious points in navigating the terrain of contemporary Philippine politics is how we should approach the seeming polarization of the...

A night of no colors

by Joel Pablo Salud They were not the ‘usual suspects,’ at least, not those you’d often see hobnobbing at a coffeeshop. This ‘eclectic’ gathering of Filipinos,...
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The language of aesthetics as the language of power

Shakespeare had his Queen Elizabeth. Michelangelo his Lorenzo de’ Medici. Leonardo da Vinci his Ludovico Sforza. Artists and their powerful patrons captured as still-life...

My State of the Nation Address

Since I can remember, I have always equated the fight for our rights and freedoms with hope. For what use would struggling for our...
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