Looking Back

Zarcal: First Filipino-Australian

While Filipino historian Reynaldo C. Ileto is best known for his landmark book “Pasyon and…

‘Manilamen’ in Australia

Canberra is not on the Pinoy tourist’s go-to list for Australia, which is topped by…

Official vs personal record

Any historian who attempts to write a history of the past 50 years will be…

Old dogs, new tricks

How will future generations remember the plunder that was lying in plain sight all these…

‘Magellan’: Old questions, new answers

I wonder how Filipino moviegoers will relate to Lav Diaz’s new film “Magellan,” which opens…

Personal shopper to the corrupt

People who find me browsing around at auction previews often ask one of two things:…

Detour into prehistory

While people are complaining about recent flooding and railing against corruption and ghost projects of…

Intramuros in archival memory

When I started exploring Intramuros on foot in the 1980s, it was undergoing the early…

Corruption in retrospect

There is an old Spanish saying, that in stealing, “one must steal threefold: once for…

Dysfunctional transport systems

My commute to school has been challenging since we lost the point-to-point (P2P) bus that…