Dear graduates of 2022

Anna Cristina Tuazon - @inquirerdotnet 06/09/2022

You have gone through something extraordinary: You have had the singular experience of completing your senior high almost fully online. For some of you, your graduation will be the first—and last—time you see your classmates and teachers…

Lessons from an Open House

Inez Ponce de leon - @inquirerdotnet 06/08/2022

Last month, my home department at the Ateneo, the Department of Communication, held its annual Open House for prospective freshmen. The Open House is a weekend event (virtual in recent years) that demonstrates to would-be students what…

Back to basics

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 06/07/2022

As a new administration prepares to take over the reins of government, it needs to firm up its strategy for moving the country forward. Given the state of our country and its people right now, my unsolicited…

To have a dream

Angel Diesta - @inquirerdotnet 06/06/2022

I dreamed of becoming a doctor when I was three. I wanted to be an architect when I was four, and when I turned five, I dreamed of becoming an artist like my father. At 22, I…

Living in the Spirit

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 06/05/2022

The story is told about a man who was hired to put on a gorilla costume at the circus, to the delight of so many people. One day, he slipped and fell into the lion’s cage and…

Propaganda: Good or bad?

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 06/03/2022

Filipinos love to play with words. We effortlessly form puns or terms with double or conflicting meanings for a laugh, often unmindful of the power of words to communicate, conceal, or confuse. Take propaganda. Textbook history taught…

A parent’s nightmare

Joel Ruiz Butuyan - @inquirerdotnet 06/02/2022

It’s every parent’s nightmare: a child suddenly becomes very sick and ostensibly on the brink of death. It happens at midnight, and the nearest city where the big hospitals are located is 40 kilometers away. My family…

Dead men do tell tales

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 06/01/2022

Dead men tell no tales is a phrase older than the title of a 2017 film in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise. The phrase has been tracked down to the 13th-century Persian poet Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn…

Doing a Vietnam

Cielito F. Habito - @inquirerdotnet 05/31/2022

How we wish our next secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) would be known as the champion and booster of Philippine exports,” someone mused in a conversation last week. He was coming from the…

Thou shalt not envy

Kaiser Occeña - @inquirerdotnet 05/30/2022

It was a rainy Tuesday morning. I was on my way to work while listening to Spotify when Francis M’s “Mga Kababayan Ko” played. The lyrics of the song goes: “Iwasan mo ang inggit, ang sa iba’y…

Sense of mission

Fr. Jerry M. Orbos SVD - @inquirerdotnet 05/29/2022

Did you hear about a man who had such a strong sense of mission, and who was so passionate in solving problems, such that whenever he saw any vehicle with the sign “4×4” he would go write:…

It was a disaster waiting to happen

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 05/27/2022

Inquirer’s banner story two days ago: “Court finds Marcopper liable for 1993 disaster.” Yes, after all hell broke loose in Marinduque 28 years and five months ago and after a 21-year legal battle. The 30-plus plaintiffs, the…

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