Lifting the Veil
The long Christmas season here in Spain is finally over and this week’s Camino a Ítaca looks at stories and myth, the differences between them and who believes what. Click…
What’s that Sound?
The newest results of the international PISA test in the Camino a Ítaca this week. Once again, excuses are made but the root cause is once again avoided. Click over…
Looking for the End of the World
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca a look at the mad men (and women) who hope and pray for the end of the world. Religious zealots who pine for the…
Whose Transculture Is It?
…is? My latest Camino a Ítaca column for HOY: music, migration, cultural memory, and our peculiar ability to invent a concept and then fail to recognise it when it turns…
Foreshadowing
…with lectures and talks in high schools and focused on adolescents.” Which begs the question if those who fervently believe that you’ll anger an all-powerful sky god by placing a…
Already?
…solemn commemoration of a religious holiday. It’s now a spectacle, a distraction, and a testament to the power of consumerism. We now see an arms race of sorts, as cities…
Not again?
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, the space-time continum is once again altered. The cruel act happens this weekend in Europe and I believe the next in North America. Click…
The End of an Era
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca a look at how blind the far right is to the meaning of their own words. Click over to read the original piece…
Wish You Weren’t Here
…The travel writer in me is confused. And about a slightly more troubling possibility: perhaps all that talk of pain and sacrifice isn’t a description of what has happened. Perhaps…
A City Besieged
…who are comfortable banning works of art that they don’t agree with and that are two steps away from holding public book burnings. Will Maria Guardiola find common cause with…