View from the foxhole shaping the political into the personal - Salud, John Pablo (Diliman, Quezon City University of the Philippines Press, 2023)
Our Crucible -- The Haunting -- Freedom of Infomation: Half-Baked or Half-Won? -- Which Stairway to Heaven Are You On? -- When Stars Fall -- Children of the Equinox -- The Kill Zone -- Wild, Wild West Philippine Sea -- The Rape Escape -- Pulling a Hoax: Not by the Hair of my Chinny Chin Chin -- State of the Nation: What I Want to Hear from Digong -- When Darkness Knocks at Your Door -- Insidious: Just Another Horror Story -- Flying Out to Neverwhere: Digong's First SONA (First of Two Parts) -- Flying Out to Neverwhere: Digong's First SONA (Second of Two Parts) -- Art in the Time of Bloodletting -- The Human Rights Gambit -- The Marcos Burial and the Zombie Apocalypse -- Critical Thinking: The Devil in Their Paradise -- Orion Stirs: Another Martial Law? -- The Promise -- Every Hope of Heaven -- Final Silence -- Goin' Bananas over Immorality -- Mercury Pandemic -- Hannibal at the Gates: Cui Bono? -- Reminiscing Martial Law and My Little Birthday Story -- The Vex Tapes & Crimes against Political Sanity -- The Story I Should've Written a Long Time Ago -- Fire Child -- Writing, Violence, and the Violence of Writing -- "Professionalizing Journalism": A Cock-and-Bull Proposal -- Campus Journalism: Beyond the Competition -- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle -- Puerto Princesa: On Campus Journalism, Thinking Right, and the Much-Awaited Croissant -- Traversing the fault Lines: Is Duterte's Rise to Power the Media;s Fault? -- Taking the Message to the Youth -- Where the Past Meets the Present -- Braving Gray Areas with Language -- When War Is Its Own End, We All Lose -- EJK Inc.: Have We Scraped the Bottom of the Barrel Yet -- What Do You Believe In? -- If Being Right Is No Different from Being Left, Then So Be It -- The Death Penalty: A View from the Foxhole -- Truth's Return on Investment -- Language as Dictatorship's Benefactor -- Growing Up under Alt-Truth and the World of the Leviathan -- Siege of Marawi: Under Cover of Terror -- Understanding Terror.
Keywords: Philippine essays (English); Journalism -- Political aspects -- Philippines; Philippines -- Politics and government -- 1986-.; Philippines -- Social conditions -- 1986-.