August 18, 2025

Landing With a Thud

By David Haldane August 18, 2025   The silence was deafening. “So,” the master-of-ceremonies asked the audience at my first book launch on Siargao Island, “are […]
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June 9, 2025

Reinventing the Language

By David Haldane June 9, 2025   It all began when liberals started calling themselves progressives. That happened in 2008 as Barack Obama ran for president […]
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May 19, 2025

Darkened Rooms

  By David Haldane May 19, 2025     Ok, I’m impressed. At the risk of sounding narcissistic, let me just add that it’s not something […]
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May 13, 2025

Journalism’s Jam

By David Haldane May 12, 2025   It’s not all their fault. By IT, I mean the loss of public trust in legacy media and authoritarian […]
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February 3, 2025

Hitting the Proverbial Jackpot

  By David Haldane February 3, 2025     The phone messages always start the same. “Congratulations,” they say, or words to that effect. “Your book […]
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December 16, 2024

A Return to Old-Fashioned Journalism at the LA Times?

  By David Haldane Dec. 16, 2024   I’ve been meaning to write this column for a couple of months. My hesitation was because it involves […]
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September 30, 2024

Cosmic Comedy

By David Haldane Sept. 30, 2024     I had just finished breakfast when the phone rang. It was my wife, crying like I’d never heard […]
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July 7, 2024

Speaking English in the Philippines

By David Haldane July 8, 2024   It’s both a blessing and a curse. A double-edged-sword, as they say, a blade that cuts both ways. What […]
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June 17, 2024

On God’s Orders: The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo

  By David Haldane June 17, 2024     It was almost Biblical. First came the earthquake, one of the most powerful the Philippines had ever […]
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August 17, 2023

Barbie Brouhaha

By David Haldane Aug. 17, 2023     I went to see Barbie because it almost got banned in the Philippines. The problem, it turns out, […]
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June 1, 2023

Reinventing Einstein

By David Haldane June 1, 2023     The Facebook photo demanded a double take. There he was, Albert Einstein, standing on a street in SoHo, […]
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May 25, 2023

Spelling Names

By David Haldane May 25, 2023     It came up again the other night. We were at the Gateway Hotel for a family dinner when […]
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