The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” wrote the Czech novelist Milan Kundera. Forgetting has always been one of our nation’s gravest afflictions. We ...
The story is told about a lawyer who encountered a crowd in an intersection. Wanting to get to the accident scene, he persistently made his way through the crowd, shouting: “Let me through! I am a ...
Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa couldn’t have picked a more fitting symbol for the public works corruption that has permeated even the health sector. During an inspection this week in Marikina ...
Hardly have “nepo babies” faded from social media posts, when a video of another form of toxic entitlement went viral over ...
While this week’s occurrence in the West Philippine Sea is no longer surprising, it remains brazen, menacing, and deeply alarming. On Oct. 12, Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) and Chinese Maritime ...
They don’t have to say it out loud. I’ve learned to recognize the silence. Every time a professor mentions “Isis,” “Abu Sayyaf,” or “al-Qaeda,” I can feel the glances, the subtle ...
Living the Statistics of P64/Day,” was last Monday’s topic for discussion by a panel formed by the Ateneo de Manila’s council of [college-student] organizations. I was invited ...
Actually, I’d say the famous runner-up of a phrase—the most famous one being “My loyalty to party ends where my loyalty to ...
Most “old” people use artificial intelligence, or AI, like Google. They ask a question, AI answers. That is the simplest, most basic use of a tool that is slowly shaping our lives, whether we ...
Will we now see a decisive shift in public sentiment that will finally lead to much wider involvement and sustained effort in ...
Capacity development of elementary and secondary teachers in public schools has always been a priority of the Philippine government, and this has transcended beyond partisan politics. In fact, ...