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Joel Pablo Salud

The activism of letters

To be writing is to be in a particular relation to the world; it is to be linguistically in process, not waiting for a...

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...

The People’s National Artist: For Aunor and for art

    I have to admit, and quite sadly, that I was no fan of either television or film during my years as a child. Back...

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 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...

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...

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...

“Make Orwell fiction again”: Deconstructing the Arroyo Charter

It was one of those rare occasions where I took some time off politics to delve into that one thing I’ve nearly forgotten: the...

Reincatnation

You might have guessed it by now. Yes, I am a tomcat. I’m one of several varieties of strays. One of five kittens born near...

Isuzu Gencars: Good people, great brand

Building an enterprise requires an immeasurable amount of skill, daring, and more than a handful of patience to get the job done. There has...