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…
New Piece in Go Nomad on Northern Iran
If you’re familiar with the terrors that taxi travel can pose around the world. Click over to Go Nomad’s site and check out my latest piece on the perils of…
Enter At Your Own Risk
…piece came from? Well…mine are of Caceres and the bull. I can’t say I know who the other people are? Click over to read the piece in the Khaleej Times….
My God Can Beat Up Your God
…that’s the childish logic at the heart of a great deal of very adult violence. In this piece, I examine how quickly geopolitical conflict gets reframed as a moral—or even…