LOOKING BACK, the title of my newspaper column, was given to me by my mentor E. Aguilar Cruz when he introduced me to the editor...

LOOKING BACK, the title of my newspaper column, was given to me by my mentor E. Aguilar Cruz when he introduced me to the editors at the Daily Globe in 1987, the column first appeared in the Lifestyle pages and later moved to Op-Ed.
Looking back moved to the Inquirer in 1991 and has been there ever since. One foreign scholar commented that having a regular opinion editorial page column on history is quite unique (until the advent of Xiao Chua and Jorge Mojarro in the Manila Times), while an...