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Joel Pablo Salud

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,...

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...

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...

Lisandro Claudio’s Basagan Ng Trip

I have a particular fondness for essays that probably very few readers share. My year takes me from the narratives of Orwell—a fixture on my...

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...

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...

In the race toward the Graphic centennial

“he need for independent, courageous, trustworthy journalism is as great as it’s ever been.”—G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times   Reading Sulzberger’s New Year’s...

Ode to the last Samurai

  There are books of essays that read like badly-written sitcoms—those unwelcoming, forgettable narratives that love listening to their own voices bellowing from the pages. On...

Time and the road we are on

I have come to terms that the world I once knew—that carefree, brutally nuanced yet distinctly unafraid, sun-kissed planet—is no more. I didn’t see it...

Was Christ an EJK victim?

Extrajudicial killing. EJK. I know. This is hardly the topic befitting the holidays. However, in light of what some people had raised recently, it got me...