Manolo Quezon is #TheExplainer Podcast

This is an audio long read of my Spot.ph article, "Bonifacio Is Your Cubicle Seatmate," originally published on November 30, 2017. 

This is an audio long read adaption of my Spot.ph article, "Why Isn’t Independence Day in August?" published on August 31, 2017. It's slightly diffierent because it only refers to the visual aids used in the original article.

This is an audio long read of a Long View column of mine, "The end of social mobility," published on February 26, 2009 in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. For the sake of context, I've included the first four paragraphs from a previous column, "Permanently poor," published on February 22, 2009. I ventured a thesis I have returned to time and again, since then: the implications of the rise of a "new" middle class, and the inability of our political system to reform itself. So it was in this piece, from 2009, that I suggested the restoration of the Marcoses was not just a possibility, but an increasing probability.

This is an audio long read of "Manna from Marcos." It originally came out in my The Explainer column in ABs-CBN Online on September 26, 2017. In it, I discuss Cargo Cults and how the Marcoses benefit from a kind of Cargo Cult.

My interest in Cargo Cults was first sparked a decade earlier, when I was co-writing a blog, "Inquirer Current," on Inquirer.net with John Nery. My entry from 2008, entitled, "A lack of ambition, a Cargo Cult culture, and gaming the system," is also a Podcast Episode. 

In my pieces in anticipation of the 2022 elections, I've returned to the theme of the Cargo Cult, which provides an important insight, I believe, into an important subset of the Marcos constituency.

This is an audio long read of two of my The Long View columns published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. "September 23, not 21" was originally published on September 19, 2018, while "Time bandit" was published on September 23, 2020. These are the second and third, respectively, of my three pieces on the proper date for commemorating martial law. 

This audio long read is a recording of my The Explainer on ANC piece, "The big lie," published on September 18, 2017. This is the first of three explorations of the wrongness of commemorating martial law on September 21 that I've published.

This audio long read is a recording of my Rogue Magazine September 2014 article, "Showdown with the Supremes," on Ferdinand Marcos, martial law, and how the Supreme Court surrendered to him. 

This is the audio long read version of my article, published in Spot.PH on February 14, 2020. I have been following the Marcos restoration effort for over a decade and a half; and it seemed to me that in reviewing a documentary on Imelda, an earlier one had to be brought into the picture, because both documentaries book-end that restoration effort.

Originally published in Spot.PH on September 11, 2017, the centenary of Marcos' birth. The blurb for it stated, "We are far from being able to take stock of his life." Which is true. F. Sionil Jose sent me a note to compliment me on this piece, which I appreciated very much, since he was old enough to have known Marcos personally. This article was the product of three stories told me by contemporaries of Marcos.

This audio long read is a recording of my two-part series, "Marcos in retrospect," which came out in my Philippine Daily Inquirer column on September 17 and 20, 2007. September 11, the birth anniversary of Ferdinand Marcos, kicks in an annual opportunity to reflect on his life and time, followed, as it is, by the (real) anniversary of Martial Law, September 23, and his death anniversary on September 28.