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The life of a child bribe
“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth and it happens every few minutes. The problem with groups who deal with rape is that they try to educate women about how to defend themselves. What really needs to be done is...
Journalists’ lives matter
It’s as if by staggering, weak and helpless, and with a bullet in the chest, a journalist is given that one chance at reporting the grandest of all stories: his own murder.
This image of a corpse, sprawled and brutalized out of shape while...
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 elements of their day.
According to experts, it wasn’t until the 19th century when most poets and playwrights, painters and...
How to create a generation of criminals
It skipped our notice again: senators passing a bill they hardly understood, let alone grasped its full implications.
Senate Bill No. 1477, known as an Act of Promoting Positive and Nonviolent Discipline of Children, seeks to prohibit corporal punishment on children below 18 years...
Communism is not a crime
First a disclaimer: while I may have loved my wife Che for the last 12 years and addressed her as Commandante (because of her namesake, Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary), and named my son Lenin (no relation to the fierce Bolshevik intellectual who...
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 Filipino public space brought to the fore by Duterte’s unexpected ascent to power.
Entered into the fray by an assembly...
