Jessica Zafra, on #twistedthursdays 25 Aug 2013 | 05:10 am

Column: What Aquino and Rizal had in common 25 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am

A tale of two martyrs. Published on August 20, 2013. They came home. They did not have to; the threats they faced to life or liberty were real and manifest, the work they could have done outside the ...

Column: Truth and hyperbole in basketball 25 Aug 2013 | 04:35 am

Max Weber at the rainbow arc. Published on August 13, 2013. It was a teaching moment, and Coach Chot Reyes seized it. After his Gilas Pilipinas team ended the so-called South Korean curse on Saturday...

Column: Confirmation bias: A case study 24 Aug 2013 | 08:56 pm

Links to follow! Published on August 6, 2013. The other Friday, I had the privilege of speaking before over a thousand delegates taking part in De La Salle University’s exceptionally well-organized S...

Column: “Hysterical sex” 23 Aug 2013 | 10:20 am

Famous writers playing word games. Published on July 30, 2013. Spoiler alert: This column is entirely, unapologetically, about writers and writing. Last week, three literary lions of late 20th-centu...

Column: Talking peace with the MILF 23 Aug 2013 | 08:49 am

Reading the latest signed agreement, looking for clues. Published on July 23, 2013. Can the peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front still end in failure? We got a reminder in recent...

Column: What would Ignatius do? 23 Aug 2013 | 08:14 am

Still playing catch-up, but only six more to go before the Newsstand column archive becomes current. Six entirely different columns, beginning with this one on the Ignatian approach to discourse. Publ...

Column: Let us now praise a holy man 23 Aug 2013 | 07:28 am

Excerpts from a pastor’s journal. Published on July 9, 2013. “I think it is now three years since I last used a typewriter,” Pope John XXIII began a letter to his brother. “I used to enjoy typing so ...

Column: When the United States lost its way 23 Aug 2013 | 07:18 am

Published on July 2, 2013. In 1981, the diplomatic historian Robert C. Hilderbrand wrote a pioneering study of the first attempts by the US government to “manage” public opinion. The book’s early cha...

Column: Doubting Edward, or Wolf cries boy 21 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm

Published on June 25, 2013. What should we make of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower? The exclusive accounts of Glenn Greenwald and others from the Guardian, sourced from a week’s worth of secret int...