Neric Acosta

Moral Damage

Moral damage, Vaclav Havel says, happens at the moment when what we say, or insist on saying, is different from what we think or believe

Diaspora

As our scandal-weary country roils with new and ever more shocking revelations or allusions to official impunity and ‘immoderate greed’ – including the current issue ...
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Electoral ‘Americana’

One would have initially thought that the ebullient interest in the Philippines over the American elections this year just had to do with the Filipino ...
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Pagbabago

In lieu of a column this week, I am sharing a brief reflection piece I wrote recently. This is largely a distillation of several ...
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image Neric Acosta was congressman from 1998-2007 and principal author of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. He served as secretary-general of the Liberal Party and is current secretary-general of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Hawaii where he was an East-West Center doctorate fellow. He teaches at the Ateneo School of Government and Department of Political Science. In 2004 he was named World Fellow of Yale University.
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