Empty Promises, Empty Shelves
…abyss of a #me-me, all for me world. Click over to the original piece published in el HOY or read the English version below. (PDF en castellano abajo) The recent…
Jailing Songbirds
…the originally published piece here in Spanish or the English below. (version en castellano en PDF tambien abajo) Rap just never did it for me. The ethereal sound of Johnny…
Battuta’s Least Known Journey
…most. And within this obscurity lies his least known sojourn, his jihad to the Iberian peninsula in today’s Spain. Follow his footsteps in a piece published in Dubai’s Khaleej Times….
Laugh to Keep from Crying
…many reasons. Click over to read the originally published version in Spanish or the piece’s beginnings in English below. I first heard it echo around the plaza del Socorro. It…
Teachers at a Crossroads
With the arrival of the plague, things have become clearer. An opinion piece on the current state of education during the current state of emergency in el HOY. The extended English…
The Dowsing Rod of Race
…occupied with questions that can never be answered because they were never real questions to begin with. The piece also explores the peculiar irony of holding a conference devoted to…
Why I Wrote About Ceiling Fans (again!)
This week, Nueva Tribuna published my latest article, Fans Above Us: The Politics of “We Survived.“ An English translation appears below. For non-Spanish readers, some context may help. The article…
The Wrath Merchants: From a Cross in Cáceres to the Holy Litigation Machine
…perhaps the only sane participant in the entire affair. Although inspired by events in Cáceres, the piece is really about something broader: the transformation of grievance into an industry, outrage…
A Tiger in a White Cassock
…My latest essay, A Tiger in a White Cassock, was published yesterday in CounterPunch and has now also appeared in Spanish translation in Nueva Tribuna. The piece began with a…
Caceres with an Irish Lilt
…seem to cheer things up. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to the greenest of places, but an Irish newspaper, The Irish World, has just published a new travel piece…