2024


2024.12.01      Government is not a family
2024.11.24      Confi funds, accountability, and governance
2024.11.17      The House quad comm grills Duterte
2024.11.10      Making sense of Trump’s triumph
2024.11.03      Duterte vs the rule of law
2024.10.27      Testing America’s political stability
2024.10.20      The sociology of corruption
2024.10.13      A pastor for the peripheries
2024.10.06      The unending tragedy in the Middle East
2024.09.29      The unraveling of a corrupt enabling system
2024.09.22      A truth commission on Duterte’s war on drugs
2024.09.15      How TikTok is shaping politics
2024.09.01      The pain of the privileged
2024.08.25      A lesson on the politics of ‘utang na loob’
2024.08.18      The significance of Ninoy Aquino’s assassination
2024.08.11      It’s not unlawful, but is it right?
2024.08.04      When a judge issues an unpopular ruling
2024.07.28      Varieties of ecological communication
2024.07.21      Global society and its detractors
2024.07.14      The Camino experience (2)
2024.07.07      The Camino experience (1)
2024.06.09      Philippine politics and Sinophobia
2024.06.02      Law and politics in America
2024.05.26      The perils and pleasures of walking
2024.05.19      Against China: The face of a new nationalism
2024.05.12      Media, politics, and foreign relations
2024.05.05      Will ChatGPT ever stop learning?
2024.04.28      When images become reality
2024.04.21      Retaliation and restraint
2024.04.14      Dealing with China’s rise
2024.04.07      Overcoming political despair
2024.03.31      Fatigue and recuperation of the senses

2024.03.24      Can US institutions survive Trump II?
2024.03.17      Politicians and pastors
2024.03.10      A visit across time
2024.03.03      Russia under Putin
2024.02.25      The radical beginnings of Edsa people power
2024.02.18      Edsa people power and the United States
2024.02.11      China’s faltering socialist market economy
2024.02.04      Education: Mirror of a deeper crisis
2024.01.28      The end of another coalition
2024.01.21      Postscript to the Napoles ‘pork’ scam
2024.01.14      The ‘Edsa-pwera’ ad
2024.01.07      A lesson in collective survival