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…
The Ice Cream Man
This ain’t John Brim’s seminal Ice Cream Man and perhaps little more of David Lee Roth’s take on it. In this week’s Camino a Ítaca Christmas and what it means for…
The polyester gospel
Curious about how literature, identity, and cultural myths intersect in the most unexpected places? My most recent stop on the Camino a Ítaca takes readers into the heart of Alberta’s…
The Unmasking
…Extremadura to adopt the language and framing of Spain’s far right in its response to unaccompanied migrant children. The essay is not an argument about immigration policy. Democracies will, and…
Love Actually
…the mythical ‘War on Christmas’. This week’s Camino a Ítaca looks at how the queen of false flag warfare here in Spain launched the most recent attack on an nonexistent…
We Appreciate your Predicament, Mr. Bond
Bond villains, war criminals, mud volcanoes and ununderstandable Scottish accents in this weeks Camino a Ítaca. It’s the second year in a row that the United Conference Conference Climate…