ThePILLARS Publication

The Upper Chamber needs an Uppercut

The Philippine Senate does not need to be fixed. It needs to be pressured. From Bato dela Rosa's months-long absence to leadership coups timed around impeachment proceedings, the institution has made visible what structural critics have long argued: the chamber governs not for the Filipino people, but for the elite factions that produced it.

No, apathy is not the problem!

In 2010, a student leader stood before his own institution and said: we are the problem. Paul Francis Lagarde's Washday piece, sharp, unsparing, and written from the inside, refused the easy comfort of blaming disengaged students and turned the mirror on the leaders doing the labeling. It is, sixteen years later, still one of the most honest things anyone in AdNU student politics has put to print about apathy.

One Year Since, The Ghost is Still At Large

One year after Duterte’s arrest, the central question confronting the country is whether the system of violence and political tolerance for killings that flourished during his administration can truly be dismantled.

On the University's class suspensions in times of weather disturbances

When Journalism is Treated as Terrorism*

When journalism is criminalized, entire communities are silenced—and democracy is further diminished.

Tama na, fees!

For the fourth consecutive year since the pandemic, the Ateneo administration has proposed a 4% increase in tuition and other fees for the coming academic year. ThePILLARS Publication strongly opposes the university administration's proposed change.

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