The Long View

A painful consensus

The story goes like this. A major network facing the renewal of its franchise found…

Bonfire of the Vanities

The radical critique is based on exposing internal contradictions, knots so impossible to untie, they…

Jakarta calling

On Aug. 28, as the Asia Sentinel reported, ongoing protests in Indonesia “entered a new…

Crossing the line

It was a bolt out of the blue, not least because it was announced matter-of-factly,…

A good dose of democracy

We often hear, as a criticism of legislators, that their job is to make laws…

Martial law babies

Recently, Randy David noted that in one concurring opinion, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen “positions himself…

Discarded experiments

I believe the Fifth Republic fell in 2016. This fall, in turn, could be dated…

Between the lines

Sometimes it is necessary to belabor the obvious, and each delivery of the State of…

Stormy weather

The President’s net trust ratings (positive minus negative) were last positive back in February. This…

Alone again?

The memoirs of the French statesman Charles de Gaulle begin with a famous sentence: “I…