There are few things as dispiriting as political cynicism—the scourge of democratic politics. I can’t, however, blame our folks for succumbing to spasms of cynical lamentations. The numbers are staggeringly depressing. According to the Second Congressional Commission on Education’s report, the number of “functionally illiterate” Filipinos nearly doubled from 14.5 million in 1993 to 24.8 […]... Keep on reading: ‘Quezon,’ ‘Heneral Luna,’ and the middle class