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Liberal democrats end up defending the system from the premise of continuity (an implicit admission that there is no alternative).
While champions of democracy continue to tout its virtues as the bedrock of individual rights, even they can admit that the rule of law and accountability-and to a larger extent, contemporary democracy-are already far from their salad days.Contemporary democracy ...
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Society is failing. Thanks to capitalism, political instability, global anxiety, and toxic cultural norms, they’ve checked out.
I have to be frank here. I did not watch the recent SONA as I checked out a long time ago. As such, I only read and viewed some snippets of it. And they just confirmed my assumption that this is all ...
Last year, my partner and I set out on a quest for a sperm donor. But I learned an awful lot about men along the way. Here are the highlights.
Early last year, my partner and I decided it was finally time to start a family. We had already tempted those pesky fertility gods by daring to wait until we were almost (gasp!) 35-after which any pregnancy would be considered by ...
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How an ancient wisdom helped me piece together my fractured life.
Each night as I put my three-year-old son to bed we read our books, we sing our songs, and I tell myself that he may not survive to see the morning. When I revealed this to my mother the other ...
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In the modern age, plans are made to be broken.
My friend and I arranged to have dinner recently. We haven't seen each other for seven years, and I was sufficiently excited about our meeting that I actually picked up the phone and booked a table at a restaurant. Yet when ...
You're not the only one apathetic about our failing democratic system.
I have consciously and intentionally refrained from publicly commenting or expressing my sentiments to an electoral cycle, which I do think is frankly pointless. I even doubt if I will even show up to the polls. And this is for a reason; ...
I can't sleep through the night. I continue to doomscroll. The return to normal seems like it's maybe bullshit.
I marked the two-year anniversary of the pandemic the way I do most nights now: waking up with a start and blearily checking my watch. It's 3 a.m., 4, 4:30, if I'm lucky. Eventually, I accept that ...
If getting married was about leaving one family and starting another one, making a will felt like a reminder you’d be leaving that family one day, too
Nobody is getting out of this world alive: three grandparents and two cocker spaniels departing in quick succession inured me to this fact some time ago. Still, I was surprised when one of the first pieces of advice I was given on ...
We live in a state where wealth belongs, or can be created, only by the very few.
True story-I heard this through the grapevine: A self-made man who has also become a newly arrived snob gets to know an even larger snob and his colleague over a series of business meetings. The larger snob has observed that ...
The existential dread of just another desensitized Gen Z.
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Only science can save us now.
In times of crisis, it's easy for the voices of those directly affected to be drowned out by the noise of the people on top making the decisions. After Typhoon Ulysses tore through Luzon, the calls for "resilience" have been constant, ...
On Philippine history: Should it be told in context to the nation or to the globe?
History must be learned and read, but how must it be told? This is the challenge of historians and historiography today.Top Story: Mark Twain Had an Idea For a Philippine FlagHistoriography, or the act of writing history, is not just a ...
Scribbled musings as lockdown enters its fifth month.
The notion that after this pandemic, everything will return to normal is an escapist narrative. It feeds our incessant longing to get out, even if we have little avenues to do so. Everywhere we go and everyone we have become intimate with ...
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