Vicente L. Rafael | The New York Review of Books

Vicente L. Rafael

Vicente L. Rafael is professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of several works on the political and cultural history of the Philippines, most recently The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte, published earlier this year by Duke University Press. (July 2022)

The Return of the Marcoses

The level of support in the Philippines for Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. cannot be explained by social media disinformation or sheer coercion alone.

July 21, 2022