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This Uncertain Democracy by Joel Pablo Salud

The forces that uphold our dignity as citizens of our nation—art, culture, laws, history, to name a few—are under attack. Not only are we being...

The Bedan Roar: Roaring against Censorship by Joel Pablo Salud

It was mid-morning of a torrid desert-like Monday, the 23rd of April, when, scrolling down my Facebook newsfeed, an image wooshed past me. I...

Ateneo de Naga University Press translates Jorge Luis Borges

by Joel Pablo Salud Author Anthony Burgess once wrote that translation is not only a matter of words. “It is a matter of making intelligible...

Fourth Estate as Empire?

By Joel Pablo Salud In Eric Gamalinda’s novel, Empire of Memory (First Edition, 1992), the author quotes the words of Dr. José Rizal in his...

Primus Inter Pares

by Joel Pablo Salud The bosses one gets to laugh with from time to time, share a drink or two even in the thick of...

On education and seduction: a harvest of prose

by Joel Pablo Salud, Manila Critics Circle There’s a growing fan base on the lookout for nonfiction books these days, and not without good cause:...

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,...

Lessons after 10 years and a day

By Joel Pablo Salud I didn’t get to spend 10 years working as editor for the country’s longest-running news and literary magazine without a harvest...

Free education and the road to progress

by Joel Pablo Salud   Raising a little over PhP50 billion for the Free Higher Education Law is no easy feat. By the time the Universal Access...

ICC and the rigors of curbing crimes against humanity

by Joel Pablo Salud   How effective is the International Criminal Court (ICC) in curbing crimes against humanity? A better question, perhaps, should be: is the...