The Buddha was Bald

…but is Everywhere Depicted with a Full Head of Hair

Eisel Mazard (大影)

Written in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2010. First published on the A.N.U. website “New Mandala”.

Sun-Tzu, Clausewitz, Thucydides: It’s only a lot of reading if you do it

Great military strategists are oft-quoted, but rarely read.

Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m a major in the US Army, but until recently, I hadn’t…

What is wrong with Philippine history?

Troubleshooting from an unlikely source, the Lumads of Mindanao

Rare Civil War photo album is Cornell Library’s 8 millionth volume

The Christian Conversion Puzzle

Why were the early Filipinos so easily converted?

Cambodia Today

A Generation after the Killing Fields

The unbearable lightness of the Sixties.

Being there.

The Double El(l) Dilemma

How one man’s spelling rules made me a true American

There’s no place like home?

Roots, journeys and lives of upheaval

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered and…