ANTONIO J. MONTALVAN II is a Mindanao anthropologist and ethnohistorian. He is a Ford Foundation scholar for the doctorate in anthropology on Mindanao Studies with the Mindanao Anthropology Consortium. Montalvan has written articles about Mindanao history and culture in academic journals.
The lunacy that is ROTC
At the rate senators are mouthing absurdities, rationalizing the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) or the mandatory physical military training in college has become an act of sheer idiocy.
Can Marcos Sr.’s remains still be exhumed?
The dictator’s remains can still be exhumed. It can happen under a better government that does not extol fascism and despotism, which absolutely have no place in 21st century democracies. Perhaps not this time but in the future, yes.
Never again to a ConCon that can be manipulated
The House of Representatives, bent on legislating a bill that will call for a constitutional convention, is giving mixed signals. Are they hiding the real intention?
The Senate that hates fiction
Suddenly, “art imitating life” is a condemnable act when it exposes the out-and-out ineptitude of a government whose fidelity is not to the Filipino people but to their political patrons. How’s that for bad image?
When media lies, it disempowers
Everyday, media advances the literacy of citizens by enabling them to critically understand issues, evaluate its content, and communicate a whole range of social and political situations.
