Are you Ready for Senators Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa and Bong Go?: the Power that Decides and Creates our Politicians

Nestor Ravilas

The swarming of clowns and charlatans in politics is quite alarming. More alarming is the fact that they are winning, and many of them have already turned the government into circus more than a decade ago. Luckily, such phenomenon is not unique in this country. Meaning, ours is not the only house that is being pulled down gradually by termites.

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Power without Force: The Feminization of Politics

Nestor Ravilas

“When you feminise politics, it loses its power!” Hearing this from one of the talks of the philosopher and political theorist, Yanis Varoufakis, made me wonder what he meant by this, until it occurred to me gender relation in our political culture.
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