The Long View Vendettas By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 04:42:00 03/16/2009 As I was texting, the taxi driver said, “Ah, you know, here in Davao you can text anywhere, no one will snatch your phone. Not like in Manila where – a recent passenger told me – you can lose [...]

The Long View The inner light of a man By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 23:54:00 03/11/2009 Read first part As “God On Trial” draws to a close, the three-man tribunal meets to determine its verdict. The jurist recounts how he had never known his father, had never even known his [...]

The Long View God on trial By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 00:31:00 03/09/2009 THE other night I watched a film, “God on Trial,” It tells the story of a trial – the trial of God. The trial was held in a concentration camp, Auschwitz, by Jews – members of God’s [...]

It’s marvelous that the moment word was out that he’d passed away, the radio stations marked his passing by playing this song, and the country paused to pay tribute the best way it could -with his own music, so much a part of our lives. A Free Mind was his blog. Tributes by Life: BLIPS [...]

There is no shortage of well-meaning activity in this country; but there are times when it seems like all the effort is an essentially futile task, and that our country’s like Sisyphus, condemned to roll a stone up a hill, only to see it roll down again, every time. Last February 19 I went to [...]

The Long View Insecurity and the Invisible Class By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 04:18:00 03/02/2009 The Philippines makes a cameo appearance in Niall Ferguson’s bestselling book (based on the TV documentary series with the same name), “The Ascent of Money.” In the chapter in which he discusses the American belief [...]