1+ hour, 14+ min ago   (298+ words) The allure of scrolling through my phone isn’t as appealing to me now, but there was a time when I could not resist. Social media, to put it briefly, used to be a big part of my life. Not unlike…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (417+ words) Inquirer.net A Brief Treatise on the Incredible Shrinking Swimsuit On July 5, 1946, a French engineer named Louis Réard unveiled a two-piece bathing costume so explosively skimpy that he named it after the atom bomb test at Bikini Atoll. The name…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (708+ words) Inquirer.net Online libraries for a rainy day When classes were suspended due to inclement weather yesterday, my first reaction was to check out the local cinema schedule. The best way to wait out a storm in my part of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (327+ words) We have decided not to enter the Grammys this year. I hope that music can be heard and loved for what it is, rather than being divided by region or language.”–BTS (translated) The opposite of colonial mentality, however, is…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (267+ words) Inquirer.net Digital repatriation of history Aside from Buwan ng Wika, August is also History Month in the Philippines. This month, schoolchildren all over the Philippines commemorate the late President Manuel Quezon’s birthday (Aug. 19) and his hand in laying the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (98+ words) There is music, and the music of words—poetry; and while I have never been much for poetry, it is the closest I can come to capturing an important part of his personality, which was a love of music: he…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (263+ words) Written by French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born on June 29, 1900, the thin book titled “The Little Prince” tells of a pilot forced to land in the Sahara, who encounters a mysterious young boy claiming to be an extraterrestrial prince. During…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (718+ words) Inquirer.net 2026 marks the 165th year of Jose Rizal’s birth, the 130th year of his martyrdom, the 115th anniversary of the establishment of the Order of the Knights of Rizal, and the 70th year of Republic Act No. 1425, which made courses on Rizal and…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (701+ words) Inquirer.net Dutertismo: The velocity of evil? Stratford-upon-Avon—A genius on the cusp of modernity, Shakespeare understood the essence of politics like few other minds. Visiting his home, I was struck by both its humble simplicity as well as the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (426+ words) Hope in the absurd Inquirer.net Hope in the absurd The “Theatre of the Absurd” fosters hope by dismantling societal constructs that seem to trap humanity. Ionesco’s “The Bald Soprano” exposes the emptiness of bourgeois complacency and conventional language. The…...