Penses by Fr. Ranhilio Aquino
The town I grew up in
Many hardly know anything more of Tuguegarao than that it has one of the most extreme temperatures: sizzling in summer,...
Language and the praxis of democracy
The classical pre-Wittgenstinian theory of language was something almost all of us learned in the elementary grades. In the mind...
Congress and the purse strings
Before the appropriations committee took up the matter of the Commission on Human Rights budget, Chito Gascon already feared the...
Is justice a legal concept?
Almost all of the time, when a court resolves a dispute—a claim to what the Constitution awkwardly characterizes as a...
Once more, on impeachment
I did not think that, after the Corona impeachment and conviction, I would be writing on impeachment this soon. But...
North Korea and international law
To the whole world’s consternation, North Korea sent a missile flying across Japan. Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s young, unpredictable...
Fake news, alternative fact and epistemology
Kian was a drug-courier. Kian was a drug runner. Kian was a drug dealer. And witnesses have sworn to the...
Fallacy as the new normal
In a recent Facebook post, Dr. Jemy Gatdula of the University of Asia and the Pacific School of Law and...
Kian’s mother grieves
Kian was a now-grieving mother’s son, and she is inconsolable in her grief. Even the mother of an executed criminal...
To give or not to give
First, we were told that Secretary Benjamin Diokno and others of similar persuasion were earnestly imploring the President to withhold...
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