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The polished weapon: A mother’s take on civility (opens the original)
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If you’ve raised children, you know the exhausting, repetitive labor of teaching decorum. Say please. Wait your turn. Don’t interrupt. We spend years drilling basic civility into our kids, hoping that by the time we release them into the world – whether they’re entering a corporate boardroom, a tennis court or a courtroom – they’ll know how to act with composure and treat people with respect. In classical rhetoric and drama, decorum meant matching style and tone to the dignity of the subject and
When ego eclipses the Constitution (opens the original)
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There is an old, quiet wisdom in classic philosophy and Scripture that warns against vanagloria – the pursuit of empty praise, superficial honor, and applause unearned by genuine substance. The Apostle Paul famously cautioned early leaders against this very trap in Philippians 2:3 that says: “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves.” Ancient theologians placed vainglory alongside the most destructive human vices, not merely because i
One shock away (opens the original)
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We often talk about poverty in the Philippines through statistics, inflation rates and growth targets. But for millions of Filipinos, daily life isn’t about numbers – it’s about living in a system where being vulnerable costs the most. This reality is as old as history itself. In the Bible, the story of Naboth’s vineyard (1 Kings 21) shows how the powerful can misuse the system to take from ordinary people. Naboth owned a small piece of land passed down through his family. When King Ahab wanted
Institutional reform now! (opens the original)
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The human cost of high-level government plunder in the Philippines is hardly ever measured in spreadsheets or legal briefs. It is measured in inches of brown, murky water rising inside a family’s home, in destroyed livelihoods and in the quiet, grinding despair of millions who are left to fend for themselves every time the skies open up. In Philippine politics, budget allocations are often treated as private leverage rather than public trust. For years, flood control budgets – line items tucked
What Mayor Morato understood about rain that we forgot (opens the original)
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When Mayor Tomas Morato, a Spanish-Filipino businessman and politician born in Xábia, Alicante, Spain, walked the unpaved dirt and wilderness of Quezon City in 1940, planting sampaloc saplings along what is now the street bearing his name, the threat of high water wasn’t solved by concrete. It was solved by soil. Today, as Metro Manila faces inundated avenues and stranded commuters, we tend to talk about flood control through a lens of hard infrastructure: pumping stations, deeper underground cu
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