Is WOMAD a Colonialist Adventure?
The Main Square during the evening concerts In this week’s Camino a Ítaca I take a look back at the legacy of the WOMAD festival in Caceres from a different…
Don’t Be Afraid of the … Light!
Scared of the dark nuthin’! It’s regression therapy in this week’s Camino a Ítaca. An age-old fear has returned as our pockets are being openly picked. Click over to read…
Live and Let Live (a Halloween Tale)
It’s the Halloween special here on the Camino a Ítaca. My latest looks at the false rage at a harmless ‘tradition’. Click over to read the original in Spanish or…
The Faith Trap
This week’s Camino a Ítaca draws parallels between religious bigotry in two distinct places. The faith trap is lethal to inquiry and thought and is throw about with alarming regularity….
Empty Promises, Empty Shelves
This week’s Camino a Ítaca travels back to the 1970’s and some of the parrallels we see happening today. Populist, right wing sociopaths are marching once great nations into the…
My God Can Beat Up Your God
…to stand at the altar and preach with authority. Their scriptures advise women to remain silent in church, to submit to husbands, and to refrain from exercising authority over men….
The Dark Side of Surprise
This week’s Camino a Ítaca reminds me that after so many years, Spain can still be a mystery to me. September is in full swing and education is on many…
Back to the Future or Back to the Past?
Back to this? As our children head back to school, this week’s Camino a Ítaca looks back to the future and the eduaction that awaits them. What will this academic…
The Salt Market
…on iron-age texts created by men without any notion of something as basic as germ theory. And here they are completely right. A country’s laws must be based on reason,…
How Many Horsemen were there?
…fire once again and a good part of the classical world in Greece and Turkey is also ablaze. As you read this, temperatures are also soaring to record highs on…