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Joel Pablo Salud

Caligula and the weaponization of humiliation

I’m no historian. Call me a history buff with an insatiable liking for what is either vintage or ancient. I love reading anything that...

Open season against netizens

Even then I knew it was a firestorm in the making. In 2012, under the Benigno Aquino III administration, the anti-cybercrime bill (or what is...

Savage mind: Divergence and convergence

“I am the place in which something has occurred.”—Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind It was a maverick idea, though not primitive, but on the whole...

Dengue de Rigueur

Summer comes, and with it mosquitoes and dengue. Even as the holiday cold fritters away, the Department of Health has already noticed an alarming spike...

Manix Abrera: Rockin’ the Stars

I first met Manix Abrera in a van of all places, enroute to Quezon Province, while he was fast asleep. We were to deliver each...

On ‘True Enchantment’

Very rarely do I hear fiction writers disparaged for their fiction like it was some crime or disease people should steer clear of. Not from...

A little lesson in journalistic accuracy

In journalism, there are two ways—and these must be achieved simultaneously—to guarantee accuracy. First, go hot on the trail of the facts, thereby securing backdrop,...

Can you define, for me, the essay?

I have, more than once dreamt, of the chance to reach out to as many students and teachers of writing as possible, be that...

Jolo on my mind

  The first filtered photographs that did the rounds of social media came to me as a shock. The explosion ripped the old wooden pews like...

Criminal liability means adult responsibility

A caveat: I’m no lawyer. As a writer, I work mainly along the neighborhood of logic. And logic tells me that the bill lowering...