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Federalism in three acts

The Philippines Graphic begins its launching, with this issue, of a massive information campaign on Federalism and the possible directions we might consider taking as a...

Duterte’s doctrine of diplomacy

There is a time for diplomacy. There is a time for courage. And the wisest of all individuals is the one who can wield...

My dimsum rhapsody

I am gravely offended by a meme that made the rounds of social media recently. It’s a meme that is both stupid and dangerous....

The timelessness of Lualhati Bautista

Few authors get the distinction of being timeless. Timeless doesn’t only mean eternal, it also assures a writer’s relevance in a world that tosses...

Are Filipinos on the brink of becoming stateless?

Originally penned six years after the Second World War, Hannah Arendt’s book The Origins of Totalitarianism speaks to us today with uncanny clarity. In Chapter...

Losing Cirilo by Joel Pablo Salud

  *My humble tribute to Poet and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista   nothing comes easy nothing by way of gain or loss, neither in this life nor...

Splendor in the grass: The Poet as Fire by Joel Pablo Salud

  My first sweet whiff of poet Cirilo F. Bautista’s works hardly included his poetry. It was his prose, penned in the weekly Panorama that...

The World Needs Poets by Joel Pablo Salud

On the morning of May 6, 2018, after a riveting night at Wordello 2.0 at Casa Real in Taguig, I woke up to a...

The ‘gospel’ of Federalism by Joel Pablo Salud

The Duterte administration preaches Federalism as a sort of ‘gospel of liberation’. My past interviews with executive director Joel Sy Egco and House Speaker Pantaleon...

Of That Other Country We Now Speak: Fiction worthy of its calling

As a bar room skylark, Charlson Ong can pretty much handle the microphone with the ease and flair of a Grammy winner. As a...