We Recommend, December 2012
Our Editor-at-Large, Patricio N. Abinales, recommends: Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State by Alfred W. McCoy (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2011) Alfred McCoy lays out a different way of looking at modern Philippine history based on two interesting propositions: that the pedigree of today’s extensive...
A Letter from the Editor
This publication, as with all endeavors one deems worthy, began with aspirations. When we first conceptualized this publication, Editor at Large, Patricio “Jojo” Abinales and I had been long-time readers of The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review and The London Review of Books—publications established to provide public intellectuals venues to grapple with...
