The politics of hooking the present onto past events and heroic figures led to the prize-winning manuscript's suppression from to Finally seeing print in , it provided a novel and timely reading of Bonifacio at a time when Rizal's legacy was being debated in the Senate and as the Church hierarchy, priests, intellectuals, students, and even general public were getting caught up in heated controversies over national heroes.
The circumstances of how Agoncillo's work came to the attention of the author in the s are also discussed. Page view s 22, Google Scholar TM Check. The left-behinds. A reader argues that Trump has given a voice to people who thought they were unheard and invisible:. They are expendable. To put it bluntly, these are not my people but Joe paints a sympathetic portrait of men and women who have paid the real price of our current economy, the ones who get knocked to the ground when corporate decisions are made far, far from their doorsteps.
These are people who are seen as consumers or digits on a spreadsheet. And clearly, until Trump galvanized them, they have been and to a large degree remain invisible to the talking classes and, perhaps, more crucially, to themselves.
The parade of shiny, happy people my mother sees on her TV in commercials and the shows themselves do not reflect the circumstances of their lives and when they do it is often in reality tv shows where their antics are remarkable only because they are so odd to the talking classes. They are fodder for entertainment. From this perspective any appeals to reason, ideology, true Christian values or whatever, will fall on deaf ears.
Trump has made them visible to the talking classes and to themselves. They will not be denied. Capitalism takes care of the talking classes in a way most of us take for granted: it confers dignity to their labors. There might have been a time when a man who worked with his hands could also count on that as well but not in my memory. I've been enjoying Trump's show from abroad after living in Japan the last few years For what it's worth here's my guess how this plays out:.
Trump knows he won't beat Clinton absent divine intervention a real scandal, a perfect storm of an independent run , so he'll wait until the last moment and then instruct his delegates to support someone else Trump's brand depends on his reputation of not being a loser phony as it may be. He's shown no interest in actually running a general election campaign -- no interest in the issues, no fundraising, no campaign.
If he wants to maximize the return on his investment, this is the safest course. If you want to compare Trump to an athlete, he's not Muhammad Ali so much as the guy at the YMCA who swears he can make a shot from half court. It's a lot more fun to see him talk about it than to watch him try to do it. I think it's possible that Trump could win a general election.
I switched parties so I could vote for Kasich in the NY primary next month for just that reason. But it's worth asking if Trump could ever be reelected in It seems like Trump's appeal lies in the ambiguity of what his policies would be.
It's easier to run on vague promises than an actual track record. After Iowa, most of the punditry I read was about how losing would sink Trump. But it seems like winning in would be the end This is less amusing than it seems.
From a reader in California, who makes a surprisingly precise comparison between The Donald and Il Duce :. This is in response to the reader from Europe who asserts that Trump is not a fascist and that the US would be better off as a direct democracy.
As a resident of California, I've seen some of the problems that of course you already know about direct democracy. On the more immediately impending issue: of course, we can't tell yet whether Trump is a full-fledged fascist. But do we want to put him in power and find out? The Italian historian Roberto Vivarelli's description of Mussolini's rise could have been written today about Trump [JF: emphasis added]:.
As a result, the fascist movement from its inception presented itself as a purely political phenomenon-that is to say, as a movement created for action which acquired national relevance through a skillfully executed plan ending with the seizure of power. But when in October Mussolini became Italy's prime minister, his contemporaries had no idea of what was in store for them.
There was no such thing as a fascist blueprint for government, simply because fascism was not an intellectual movement with anything comparable to a doctrine ; and, in fact, among the fascist rank and file one finds at that time the most bizarre and varied collection of people. Here we go:. Trump as Muhammad Ali.
Untethered to facts or positions and thus not having to defend them, he can claim anything and attack anyone from any direction, as the opportunity arises. Several readers have begun worrying about this consequence. That starts, partly, by not treating people who live in trailers as trash. Poor whites are a safe target in politics, even though their access to power is as limited as that of many minority groups.
Conservatives leaders need to stop taking these groups for granted. Also in the what if he loses? What I am asking you and your readers is how did the Goldwater defeat go down to those that supported him, I was 6 at the time so I do not remember. Johnson was able to pass the Great Society legislation and I think he did that with some bipartisan support.
In other words, how are we not going to tear ourselves apart at the seams even though the bounty that constitutes the US as seen from afar - Japan - makes this whole B grade opera feel absurd. Many people wonder what will happen if Trump gets the nomination.
Most anti-Trump people seem to be confident that he will lose, though there is a real fear on the part of some people that he might win. My big fear is what will happen if he does lose, which is not something I feel like many people are addressing.
I am sure many Trump supporters will feel validated if he gets the nomination, and will be sure he will win. Will they feel like the election is illegitimate. It could get a whole lot uglier in the next few years than people are imagining.
I ask because the whole idea of naming a VP seems completely contrary to Trump's messaging. A Vice President is a contingency that the President will be unable to do his or her job: has such a thought ever entered Trump's head? How could he share the spotlight with someone who isn't Trump? A second name just dilutes the brand: there simply isn't room. I can only conclude Trump will name himself as his VP. Now, back to his argument.
What about the Switzerland comparison? A reader responds to a previous reader argument that the U. The one from Switzerland may have disturbed me more than the others, even.
See: Dubya but even he had some experience as a real life governor and came from a political family! I just read the opinion of your reader from Europe with interest as a US citizen residing in Switzerland.
The idea that the Swiss system of direct democracy is what the US needs is interesting to be kind. I suppose that this could suppress any cult of personality that surrounds candidates in the US, but would it really create more trust in government? Switzerland, without the benefit of a charismatic leader, has passed stringent anti-immigrant laws promoted by extreme parties through popular votes and continues to attempt to pass more.
If the Swiss minority in these votes "shuts it" and accepts the vote, doing so has not calmed the frightened populists in the country. Unfortunately, the real Trump problem isn't simply the fact that Donald Trump could win the US presidential election.
The full scope of the problem is that similar issues seem to exist in most developed countries - likely as part of the long hangover from the financial crisis. As your colleague reported recently there are "Little Trumps" all over Europe. On the other hand, a lance the boil argument.
From someone who has been a military officer during the recent wars:. I want him as the nominee. It seems like, if he isn't then the Republicans just have this same problem again in four years, and worse. Picking Trump tells the right, this is where they are and they have to start working to make the party different if that's what they want.
Picking Rubio tells them, there was absolutely totally nothing wrong with the Bush years, which is just wrong.
The Republicans should be doing a "this thing of darkness I acknowledge mine" and prepping for the convention. What it means for the industry.
From a former political-science professor who has worked on Capitol Hill and in the Pentagon:. As a political scientist who has worked in several campaigns over the years, I have been astounded that Trump has largely failed to utilize the political consultant industry and its tools and has succeeded in winning voters despite his flouting of the candidate's code of conduct.
Political consultants have expertise in buying TV ads, in microtargeting people for ads and turnout efforts, in branding and message discipline—which have made the difference in numerous campaigns over the years. So far as I can tell, Trump isn't using these people, isn't using much paid TV, isn't building a ground game—because he can win without it.
Everybody has been surprised by his ability to manipulate the media and dominate news coverage by tweets and phone calls, but it has worked. He has not followed the traditional media campaign of paid ads, themed speeches, and infrequent press availabilities. The whole pundit class has been amazed that Trump can get away with behaviors that used to destroy previous candidates: personal insults, lies, changing positions, ignoring what he labels political correctness but the rest of us see as civility.
These deviations from the standard code of conduct haven't cost him many votes. What this means for the presidential race is that Clinton must run against a candidate using new and unexpected behaviors , and it's far from clear that her playbook responses will work against such an untraditional candidate. America has never had a demagogue as a serious presidential candidate since the television era began in Huey Long was like that in the s, and might have dethroned FDR if he hadn't been killed in George Wallace was a demagogue, but on a single issue with only regional appeal.
Trump has found issues that resonate across geography and ideology. And voters are so distrustful of what politicians say that they don't hold Trump's outrageous comments against him. They even enjoy them because they're refreshingly different. Back to positive news tomorrow.
Classy departure speech the personal parts by Marco Rubio tonight. Does anyone still remember the Chicago Seven? Trouble did indeed erupt, although maybe not the exact trouble they had wanted. They were indicted and prosecuted. And then things went terribly wrong for the government. The prosecution thought it was running a trial, a legal proceeding governed by rules. The defendants decided that they would instead mount a new kind of media spectacle intended to show total contempt for the rules, and to propagandize the viewing public into sharing their contempt.
The prosecution was doing law; the defense countered with politics. Sixty-year-olds still perform surgery on people who could choose other doctors. But on the other hand, you have been on this Earth for a really, really long time. I have a photograph of myself at age 3, standing on the docks of Cork Harbor, about to sail to New York.
The photograph looks like something I would discover after many days on Ancestry. It looks like a snapshot of my own great-aunt. When I first suspected that I was losing my hair, I felt like maybe I was also losing my grip on reality. This was the summer of , and although the previous three months had been difficult for virtually everyone, I had managed to escape relatively unscathed. My loved ones were safe. I still had a job. Now my hair was falling out for no appreciable reason.
The second time it happened, a little more than a year later, I was sure—not because of what was in the shower drain, but because of what was obviously no longer on my head.
One day, after washing and drying my hair, I looked at my hairline in the mirror and it was thin enough that I could make out the curvature of my scalp beneath it. When I looked at it, the panic became sharp. Doing work that is fulfilling has become ubiquitous career advice, but no one should depend on a single social institution to define their sense of self.
Since the start of the pandemic, Americans have been talking seriously with friends, family, and themselves about the shortcomings of their modern-day work lives. According to my research, which draws on surveys and interviews with college students, graduates, and career coaches, more than 75 percent of college-educated workers believe that passion is an important factor in career decision making.
And 67 percent of them say they would prioritize meaningful work over job stability, high wages, and work-life balance.
Believers in this idea trust that passion will inoculate them against the drudgery of working long hours on tasks that they have little personal connection to. For many, following their passion is not only a path to a good job; it is the key to a good life. John Henry Ramirez is going to die. The state of Texas is going to kill him.
The question that came before the Supreme Court this week is whether Dana Moore, his longtime pastor, will be able to lay hands on him as he dies. Given the grand, even alarmed pronouncements about religious liberty made by the right-wing justices recently, you might think this would be an easy decision.
Our fears about what other people think of us are overblown and rarely worth fretting over. Click here to listen to his new podcast series on all things happiness, How to Build a Happy Life. Social media has opened up our heads so that just about any trespasser can wander in. If you tweet whatever crosses your mind about a celebrity, it could quite possibly reach the phone in her hand as she sits on her couch in her house. We are wired to care about what others think of us. A small Kurdish boy is sitting on the ground in a damp Polish forest, a few miles from the eastern border with Belarus.
The air is heavy with cold and fog. The boy is crying. Around the boy, sitting in a circle, are his parents, uncles, and cousins, all from the same village near Dohuk, in Iraqi Kurdistan. There are 16 of them, among them seven children, including a four-month-old infant and an elderly woman who can scarcely walk. Through a translator, Anwar says that the family has been in this forest, moving back and forth between Poland and Belarus, for two weeks.
They have eaten nothing for the previous two days. Tony Judt said that there is darkness in this world, and that darkness often triumphed—and liberated me to do the same. I always find it hard to list the books that have influenced me the most. Moreover, people who set as their job the task of judging what others do, and why, are not always reliable when turning the lens upon themselves.
Still, on that changing list there are a few mainstays. Having, at that time, read very little of Tony, I was left with the impression of an intellectual monk who eschewed the dictates of party or crowd. It was my mistake. It was my loss.
Her message was succinct, accurate, and easy to understand. Buried near the bottom of their ballots on November 2 were a pair of posts: judge of elections and inspector of elections, bureaucratic titles that most people have never heard of. Skip to content. Sign in My Account Subscribe. The Atlantic Crossword.
The Print Edition. Latest Issue Past Issues. Only through November Try subscriber newsletters for free. Trump Nation. Show Newer Notes. James Fallows. Continue Reading. God help us if Trump's elected. That is where a reader in Minnesota picks up, and explains why, as a Democrat, he is having a hard time with her: I just read your post which began with the Safire quote describing Ms.
A male reader sends this list: Hillary Clinton is far from the first strong woman in public life to be slandered relentlessly by her political opponents and those offended by feminine leadership.
Dionne on Why the Right Went Wrong. What Makes Trump Tick? The International View. The millions of Americans who share this heritage, including me, reflect somberly upon the shift to the Trump brand. Here is Mr. Trump back in the motherland a few years ago, at some golf course ceremony.
Good luck with that one. Rob Ford enjoying a moment of levity during a Toronto city council meeting in Hilarity ensued when Safire was given a set of boxing gloves when he appeared on Meet the Press. Finally for the day, and returning us to Trump: One unobserved point about Trump is how far systematic morality has been taken out of the public sphere, and it seems to me out of private calculations as well.
From another reader, who like the previous two is male: When I was growing up in Eastern North Carolina there was always a certain level of Clinton hatred among whites. Hillary Clinton in Florida after her victory there this week. From a reader in California who was in grade school when Hillary Clinton became First Lady: I have noticed that the Trump supporters you quote on your blog have a common disdain for Clinton.
From a reader on the East Coast who actually remembers the Clinton era: In reference to one of your letter writers you posted earlier today: Is Hillary a congenital liar and in the pocket of Wall Street? Unrelatedly, I also found the EE [engineer] who commented to be full of himself.
Similarly on the machinist question, from a reader in the west. She writes: Of all the Trump defenders, the one who disturbed me the most was the person who disparaged the machinist. Trump in World Perspective. Finally, we can take it as a given that Trump will be a terrible, horrible disaster of Biblical proportions [allusion to Ghostbusters ] as President… So, why not worry? And you should, too. Thanks for the advice but: Nope, not sold.
From a reader in Nebraska: An earlier reader correctly stated that "[c]onservatives leaders need to stop taking these [economically left-behind] groups for granted. It is this "suspension of logic borne of intuition" that I find so frustrating He is responding especially to this post , in which I quoted some obscene and snarling pro-Trump messages: One of the downsides of the Internet is where one can be fairly anonymous, people often give themselves permission to behave poorly.
Trump Tweet from two years before his campaign kicked off. Emphasis added: I'm a clinical psychology doctoral candidate about a year away from graduation, and I think that there's actually a psychological explanation for Trump's ignorance.
From an American reader in Asia: I've been enjoying Trump's show from abroad after living in Japan the last few years For what it's worth here's my guess how this plays out: Trump knows he won't beat Clinton absent divine intervention a real scandal, a perfect storm of an independent run , so he'll wait until the last moment and then instruct his delegates to support someone else Note that in this universe, Christie's endorsement actually makes sense.
No, really, winning would be bad for him. From a reader in California, who makes a surprisingly precise comparison between The Donald and Il Duce : This is in response to the reader from Europe who asserts that Trump is not a fascist and that the US would be better off as a direct democracy. But if you look at the Philippines of today where there is so much war and violence, a revolutionary leader who used violence to achieve freedom does not seem to give inspiration.
We all want freedom but there is just too much violence in the world already. Freedom and justice should be fought for using peaceful means. But despite all of this, I still believe that his courage in fighting Spanish colonialism should always be remembered. View all 4 comments. Dec 26, Fran rated it it was amazing Shelves: philippine-history-and-institutions , andres-bonifacio-and-the-katipunan. Nonetheless, I stand by the authenticity of Agoncillo's scholarly research, and, thus, the authenticity of Andres Bonifacio's life and heroic deeds!
View 1 comment. Jun 07, Eduardo rated it it was amazing. It's my first time reading a book from the father of Philippine History I was astonished by his writing style a very detailed book on the events that led to the rise of the Philippine Revolution.
The author also pointed out the bravery of one Andres Bonifacio and his decisions that led to his death A very good book for celebrating our Country's Independence day It's my first time reading a book from the father of Philippine History I was astonished by his writing style a very detailed book on the events that led to the rise of the Philippine Revolution. The author also pointed out the bravery of one Andres Bonifacio and his decisions that led to his death A very good book for celebrating our Country's Independence day Aug 09, Jason Friedlander rated it it was amazing.
Aug 14, Albert Rejas rated it really liked it. A classic one. A must-read. Agoncillo's Revolt of the Masses is one of the foundations of Bonifacio and the Katipunan's historiography. He brought out new perspectives that are worth considering, and also, arguable claims and historical contentions.
Thus, in reading this book, take it with a grain of salt. Be skeptic, as new claims and new researches came in light in the academe of Philippine History. The book is worth-reading and interesting. Agoncillo's writing is not dry, nor dull. It is not a A classic one. It is not a textbook about Bonifacio and the Katipunan, but rather a narrative, a story; it is commendable how Agoncillo effectively intertwined history and literature.
Due to its literary approach, some of the critics of Agoncillo's work exposed that this book contains some sort of social and psychological conditioning due to its structure that is meant to illumines the reader to the 'heroic' version of Bonifacio, while oversimplifying and distorting the complex personas and events of our history. Most of the contemporary historians nowadays believes that the Philippine Revolution is not a revolt of the masses, but rather a revolt from the integration of Filipino classes.
Agoncillo, by claiming and crediting that the masses were the main initiator of the Revolution, and by dumping the role of the ilustrados and the higher-classes by saying that they collaborates and sympathize with the colonizers, and are only driven by personal, political, and economical interests is a form of distortion and oversimplication. The Philippine Revolution is not a composition of clashes between the 'Haves' and 'Have-Nots' just like what the book was implying.
It is more than that. Still, this book brought out new questions and thoughts, that resulted in an array of researches and historical revisions throughout the years. It also complies with the demands of nationalizing our history, by patching the events of our past through the Filipino lenses and perspectives.
It also brought out a transformational approach in Philippine historiography by providing spaces and attention to the role of the masses in constructing the past and its continuities.
Through Agoncillo and this book, nationalist historians such as Ileto and Constantino followed his path to form a nationalist and decolonized history. Read it. But make sure to supplement it with contemporary historical findings and interpretations, or else, you will be drowned in the extremity of historical nationalism. Nov 17, Nicolle Padirayon rated it it was amazing Shelves: r. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Sep 10, Trisha Nicole marked it as to-read. How can i read this for free? Sep 08, Roel Corpuz rated it did not like it. May Bayad Inyo libro. Jul 19, Nickson Fuller added it. Feb 28, Sarah is currently reading it. Oct 17, Howard Cuba rated it liked it. I want to read it how. Feb 23, Ronnielyn Daisog marked it as to-read Shelves: 3 , 6. Bianca Marinella rated it did not like it Jul 21, Mardionie Pascual rated it it was amazing Sep 08, Carlos rated it it was amazing Jun 21, Anthony Ton rated it it was amazing Jul 27, Kitcath rated it it was amazing Aug 28, Joshua Dimapilis rated it it was amazing Nov 04,
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