Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Today's conclusion of my 2 parts on the Republic at 80: The 40 year periods that led to the Three Old and the Three New that combined, have led to the ongoing fall of our present Republic. 000
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Today, 1st of 2 parts on our Republic at 80: why we are the way we are, starting with the breakdown of national solidarity at the moment of independence. 010
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 01/07/2026My column today is on the Iglesia, the Palace, who blinks first, and what the INC really wants, and why. 040
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 29/06/2026My column today looks at contending schools of thought on constitutional texts: letter or spirit of the law, which is supreme? 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 24/06/2026My column today is on culpability and the Tacloban tragedy. 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026My column today looks at the interesting paper by Cleve V. Arguelles et al. on the constituencies that emerged after the 2025 midterms: starting point of today's intramurals. 010
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 17/06/2026My column today is how all eyes will be on the Senate and what we've seen so far about leadership in it. 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My column today looks at one idea getting closer to being, even as another idea is rapidly shaping up to make it obsolete. Can the Bangsamoro coexist with a Mindanawon super-identity? 041
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 09/06/2026My column today looks at Mindanao and the rise of the Mindanawon identity: one that transcends historic ethnic, political, and religious divisions. 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My column today looks at the spirit vs. the letter of the law: when can the constitution defeat itself? Take the senate for example and the chance it can no longer function. 040
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 03/06/2026My column today looks at majorities, minorities, and political risk: which is a guide to detecting if political principle is at play. 021
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 01/06/2026My column today's on the Senate, whether a new majority will be formed, and how if one isn't, it means the body's at an institutional dead end --or is it? My case for allowing jailed senators to participate in plenary and impeachment. 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 26/05/2026My column today looks beyond the tensions between senators and focuses instead on what the Blue Ribbon Committee being composed of suspects means. 010
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/05/2026My column today looks at trauma in the Senate --and how useful it could be, to some in the same coalition. A quarter century, a generation, is long enough for legislators to have no memory of how to handle danger. 040
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 20/05/2026My column today is on principle and politics in the case of the Senate and impeachment. 000
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 17/05/2026My column's on how last week's Senate shenanigans began not yesterday, but last year, and even a quarter century ago. 152
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 13/05/2026My column today is on the dynamics of the new Senate majority. 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 11/05/2026My column today is how impeachment was made easy instead of being the instrument of last resort. Yet without anyone noticing, it has gained legitimacy because it's come to match the stricter requirements of previous charters. 041
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 06/05/2026My column today looks at the next chapter of the second impeachment saga. 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026My column today takes off from last time's reflection on political time, to reflect on strength --and weakness. When events combine, a picture emerges. 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 29/04/2026My column today on how body counts require an accounting because they aren't an intrinsic justification for what was done. 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 15/04/2026My column today looks at the affidavit presented to the House yesterday and why it goes beyond the usual unsubstantiated claims. 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/04/2026My column today looks at the next problem requiring cooperation and forward thinking: the climate going into next year. 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 06/04/2026My column today looks at a quiet advantage big business and organized developers and homeowners have. 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/03/2026My column today is on politics and fandoms: unlike political parties globally in crisis, they are positive in orientation, self-organized and thus, self-activating, so primed for civic action. 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 18/03/2026My column today is the President's dislike for drama and how fear of the public has abated among the political class. 032
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 04/03/2026My column today continues my series on the Spratleys and our Jeckyll-and-Hyde attitude to international matters: as a responsible member of the family of nations, and as buccaneering adventurers with imperial delusions. 042
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Today begins a series on the Spratleys and our Jeckyll-and-Hyde attitude to international matters: as a responsible member of the family of nations, and as buccaneering adventurers with imperial delusions. 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 08/02/2026My column today on how, the more you look at it, the more necessary and frantic the foiled Senate coup had to have been for those who attempted it. Will failure mean jail or getting off the hook, remains to be seen. 042
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Today's column asks why Cabinet members are trying to hog the headlines when it leads to bigger problems for the more amateurish among them. There's a strategy at play, that's why. 010
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 02/02/2026My column today looks at the DICT again. Somehow one expects greater circumspection and deliberateness from an ICT-mandated organization. 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 27/01/2026My column today is on how what Congress and the public have failed to do for 30 years --amend the Constititution-- the Supreme Court has done repeatedly. This gave an opening for a Marcosian legal approach to impeachment: rules that exist to be circumvented. 021
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 25/01/2026My column today reflects on Randy David's categorizing the administration as a "caretaker." I suggest it's not the first to be a tread-water kind of government. 021
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 20/01/2026My column today looks at the unexplainable: factors rationally irrelevant but actually important which must be factored in. Why even our politics is, as Nick Joaquin described things, "Tropical Baroque." opinion.inquirer.net/189156/when-... 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 19/01/2026My column today looks at why the dynamics of running after corruption can be politically self-defeating and suggests having survived this long, the Palace may be confusing survival with victory. 041
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 14/01/2026My column today is on the battleground to come: the Blue Ribbon Committee and public opinion on expectations. 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Today marks my first Monday column; henceforth my column will come out every Monday and Wednesday. Here I look at what we say about ourselves when it comes to corruption, according to this snapshot taken by SWS. opinion.inquirer.net/188947/corru... 031
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Diary of Rafael Palma Dec. 30, 1896: philippinediaryproject.com/1896/12/30/d... 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 16/12/2025My column today looks at a government app that works: eGov.PH: an internal audit wonders who is accountable if privacy's breached. 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 10/12/2025My column this week looks at public opinion's verdict on the President's big gamble --and why he's doubling down on his scorched-earth strategy. 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 03/12/2025My column today looks at case study: when private sector people enter the public sector and can't cope. 040
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 16/11/2025A great discussion with co-host Leloy Claudio and one which you might find interesting. Take a watch/listen if you have the chance! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kam... 000
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 16/11/2025The third and thus last of three parts of my obituary of Juan Ponce Enrile came out in today's INQUIRER.net: 030
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 14/11/2025The second of three parts of my obituary of Juan Ponce Enrile came out in today's INQUIRER.net: 020
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The first of three parts of my obituary of Juan Ponce Enrile came out in today's INQUIRER.net: 041
Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3.bsky.social · 12/11/2025The more things change the more they stay... Some familiar faces from a 2010 Rogue article I did, imagining them as Tarot Card avatars. 030