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…
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…