The Museum of Everybody Else
…“development.” It’s being packaged as “progress.” But it looks suspiciously like a piece of furniture with a municipal budget. I’ve written a hallucinatory, slightly unhinged, very pointed piece about what…
The Cross That Means Nothing (And Everything)
…Not dramatically. Not with cinematic villains marching through the streets. Slowly. Procedurally. Respectably. One legal appeal at a time. Read this piece in Spanished in El Salto Diario here or…
Choosing the Executioner
I’ve just published a new opinion piece in El Cuaderno Digital titled “Elegir al verdugo: manual extremeño de autodestrucción electoral” (Choosing the Executioner: an Extremaduran Manual of Electoral Self-Destruction). The…
Ode to Reason
…are hallucinatory, if a bit frightening. Click over to read the originally published piece in Spanish in the HOY or read the English translation below. (PDF en castellano abajo) Do…
The Whiskey War (and Why the World Could Use More Wars Like It)
…cinema. The piece asks a simple question: How did we go from wars fought with whisky to wars fought with tantrums? The essay has just been published in two versions:…
New Piece in the Toronto Star
I recently published a piece on my adopted hometown in the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star. If you are thinking about visiting Spain, click over to the article and…
Fear and Faith in a Roundabout in Cáceres
A new long-form essay published in El Salto Diario Extremadura traces an unlikely line from the Pentagon to a roundabout in Cáceres. Beginning with the spectacle of religion in contemporary…
Little Sailors on Leave
In this week’s Camino a Ítaca, a look at a piece of Spain that is in flux. Not-so-slight shifts in social contexts, yet some adherence to the norm. Click over…
Number No Longer in Service
…originally published piece in Spanish in the HOY or read the English translation below. (PDF en castellano abajo) What ever happened to good old-fashioned miracles? Those shock and awe events…
The Boundaries of Belonging
…I found myself returning repeatedly to James Baldwin, whose insights into innocence and denial feel just as relevant today as they did sixty years ago. The essay was published this…