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by Jose Dalisay - July 22, 2024 - 12:00am

When that rifle bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear last week, I’m sure I wasn’t alone in having an equally nasty thought whiz through my brain – and I’ll put this as delicately as I can:...

Retaining the fools

by Jose Dalisay - July 15, 2024 - 12:00am

A recent Rappler report on “The Philippine Senate: From statesmen to showmen” by James Patrick Cruz told us much of what we already knew, but didn’t have the exact numbers for – that political...

The truth sometimes stutters

by Jose Dalisay - July 8, 2024 - 12:00am

Like many other global citizens with an interest in American politics, I watched the recent presidential debate between US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump with alarm and dismay, emerging profoundly...

The political doghouse

by Jose Dalisay - July 1, 2024 - 12:00am

To no one’s great surprise, Vice President Sara Duterte resigned from her concurrent posts as secretary of Education and vice-chair of that long-named (short name: red-tagging) council. Maybe because I was...

A call to engage

by Jose Dalisay - June 24, 2024 - 12:00am

I wasn’t going to start this column on this note since I had another topic in mind, but it occurred to me that these two concerns may after all be related and have a bearing on one another.

Panahon not

by Jose Dalisay - June 17, 2024 - 12:00am

Whoever urged President Marcos Jr. to issue that memo mandating all government agencies and schools to sing the new “Bagong Pilipinas” hymn and recite the accompanying pledge at flag ceremonies should...

The city that works

by Jose Dalisay - June 10, 2024 - 12:00am

I was back last week in the city of Kaohsiung in Taiwan with a group of writers from the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing, at the invitation of Dr. Eing Ming Wu of the Edu-Connect Southeast...

Not Filipino enough

by Jose Dalisay - June 3, 2024 - 12:00am

In the current feeding frenzy over Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo’s allegedly questionable citizenship (to which I admittedly contributed with my tongue-in-cheek take two weeks ago), a consensus appears to...

Till divorce do us part

by Jose Dalisay - May 27, 2024 - 12:00am

Is there anything about divorce – a bill for legalizing which will soon be taken up in the Senate – that hasn’t already been said, or that most people don’t know?

Artificial intelligence

by Jose Dalisay - May 20, 2024 - 12:00am

Dr. Chichoy Carabuena had a problem. He wanted the school he owned and ran – the Generoso Carabuena Academy of Pedagogy in Santa Vicenta – to place higher in both national and international rankings,...

A century of Philippine accountancy

by Jose Dalisay - May 13, 2024 - 12:00am

In my long life as a professional writer – aside from being a fictionist, journalist and academic – I’ve occasionally been asked to write books for both private and public institutions and individuals,...

The return of the old normal

by Jose Dalisay - May 6, 2024 - 12:00am

Few will remember it, but yesterday, May 5, marked the first anniversary of the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic as a global health emergency, as announced by the World Health Organization.

1968 redux

by Jose Dalisay - April 29, 2024 - 12:00am

A wave of pro-Palestinian protests has been sweeping American college campuses, prompting academic administrators and political leaders to push back and invoke their powers – including calling in the police...

Postscript to Masungi

by Jose Dalisay - April 22, 2024 - 12:00am

Senate President Pro Tempore and environmental champion Loren Legarda did the right and necessary thing last week when she called on the Bureau of Corrections to desist from building prisons or offices on land it...

The country I wanted to love

by Jose Dalisay - April 15, 2024 - 12:00am

Fourteen years ago, I received a writing assignment that any journalist would have jumped at: to go with other media representatives on a week-long visit to Israel and to report on our observations.

Wanted: Gentlemen

by Jose Dalisay - April 8, 2024 - 12:00am

A shipload (let’s get that consonant right) of questions has been raised over the “gentleman’s agreement” alleged to have been entered into between former president Rodrigo Duterte and China’s...

A French sojourn

by Jose Dalisay - April 1, 2024 - 12:00am

My wife Beng and I were in France last week to give a series of lectures at the invitation of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, better known as SciencesPo.

The real pasaways

by Jose Dalisay - March 25, 2024 - 12:00am

The local internet came down hard last week on an anonymous teacher who was caught on livestream giving her students a scorching tongue-lashing for what she claimed was their lack of respect and discipline. Almost...

Epilogue to a novel

by Jose Dalisay - March 18, 2024 - 12:00am

It was in 1986, shortly after EDSA and my arrival in the US for my graduate studies, that I began thinking about what would eventually become my master’s thesis and my first novel, Killing Time in a Warm Place....

An advocate for IBD

by Jose Dalisay - March 11, 2024 - 12:00am

You’ll forgive me this “proud papa” moment if I preface this week’s column with the news that our unica hija Demi Dalisay Ricario, who’s unbelievably turning 50 later this year, represented...

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