About me
…The Straits Times, The Calgary Herald, Khaleej Times, DW-World, Rabble, and El País. As a regular op-ed writer, he contributes the bi-weekly column Camino a Ítaca for the Spanish newspaper…
Grandpa’s Newspapers
…it’s a story that could easily be told in German, Russian, Romanian, Albanian or Cambodian. It’s a story that will be told again in Argentina and in the good ‘ol…
The Great Unravelling
…countries were wearing.” The Camino a Ítaca climbs the Statue of Liberty this week for a look around to see what is left of something precious that we once took…
The Age of Mean
…a middle finger raised to anything resembling decency. In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a long, bittersweet gaze back to when empathy wasn’t a punchline, and “love thy neighbor” wasn’t…
The Purity Panic: Notes from the Museum of Imaginary Nations
…sealed museum and more like a bustling kitchen. In the Spanish version of the piece (my bi-weekly “Camino a Ítaca” in HOY) I take the same theme and ask: Why…
What Is, Isn’t?
…the little saftey net built over the decades in the United States, but that they want the same for Europe too. In this week’s Camino a Ítaca a Japanese kitsune…
As Time Goes By
With just days before the freely elected orange Himler assumes the most powerful office on earth to disassemble the world order from inside, the Camino a Ítaca takes a look…
Marco Polo and the Three Wise Men
In an age when American culture seems to permeate and even obliterate traditions around the world, it’s refreshing to local traditions hold strong against the ceaseless tide. Here in Spain…
The Gospel According to Groucho
Here’s the blink-and-you-miss-it summary: my latest Camino a Ítaca column dives into the Groucho-grade absurdity of political morality in Extremadura — a tale of ironclad vows that dissolved in record…
The great Franco revival circus
…isn’t just ahistorical — it’s dangerous. I argue that what looks like a longing for stability is really a romanticising of repression, a rewriting of history that treats dictatorship as…