Marcos: Pusillanimous with US, audacious with Dutertes

I WAS stunned by a column in this paper last week by a writer whom I would have expected to have, being an academic, more respect for data. The piece was entitled "The audacity of President Marcos, Jr."

This is sycophantic writing at its worst. Not even Marcos' truest believers — not even his wife Liza, whom I would call decidedly audacious for allegedly intervening in state matters — have ever called Marcos "audacious," except when he decided to run for the presidency.