COVID revealed that our youth don’t matter

By Jemy Gatdula
Joe Rogan’s December 2021 interview of Dr. Robert Malone is touted as “the most important in our time.” And it might well be that. Exposing the inutility of masks and the evil of mandatory vaccination, Malone (a virologist and immunologist) also talked about, and thus introduced to many, the idea of “mass formation psychosis.”

How to make the UAE’s deal with Israel truly historic

By The Editors The dramatic and welcome decision by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to normalize relations with Israel is indisputably a win for both...

The MMDA towed my car even with my kids inside

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
“The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You...

A controversial Nobel rewarded a writer’s noble failure

THE 2019 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Austrian author Peter Handke has, predictably, caused a storm of protest, both in countries that used to be part of Yugoslavia and also the global literary community. Handke is widely considered to be an apologist for the former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic. But here’s why I think the Swedish Academy’s decision deserves a more nuanced reaction than indignation: Handke wandered into that ugly territory while on a legitimate quest that writers need, and often lack, the courage to embark on.

The comfort of the echo chamber

By Pia Rodrigo
The dust has started to settle after the 2022 national elections. Many have offered their post-mortems after an intense and divisive campaign. Now, the question is: How can we move forward?

Overworked by overtime

Alvin Neil A. Gutierrez
I just recently came home from a conference in Japan, but what I brought home are not souvenirs, nor lessons from the conference. What...

In response to the letter from the Chinese Embassy

DEAR EDITOR, regarding the letter of the spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines to the editor titled “One China principle brooks no...

PhilSys: One card to rule them all

By Katrina Clemente-Lua
It is only a matter of time before President Duterte signs into law the bill that will put citizens and aliens under a National Identification System, to be known as Philippine Identification System or PhilSys.

Disruption, inflation, and taxation

By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
“Disruptors tend to be successful in three ways: (1) They dramatically lower historic prices through new cost structures…” -- Accenture, “Disruption need not be an...

Privatizing international airports

By Marvin Tort
To airline passengers and other airport users, I doubt very much if it matters whether an airport is managed and operated by the government...

Bad new times

By Luis V. Teodoro
The year 2017 isn’t exactly auld lang syne, or good old times, and 2018 is not only likely to be a repeat of it....

Keeping logistical variables and vulnerabilities at a minimum

By Victor Andres C. Manhit
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 characterized the world we live in as marked by rapidly accelerating technological change and economic uncertainty....