Category: Spain

Notes from the end of the liberal order: Spain

TomOctober 22, 2024Featured, Spain

I don’t know if anyone noticed, but I haven’t written much here. I spent the past couple of weeks visiting family in Spain, reading Brothers Karamazov1 on the beach and trying to forget about the state of the world. I was staying on a smaller location, about 20 minutes by train from downtown Barcelona, in a coastal…

The Kiss of Death

TomSeptember 16, 2023Articles, Spain

Spain won the Women’s soccer World Cup, but there was hardly any celebration. All the news have been concentrated on an infamous kiss given by Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain’s Football Association on one of the female players, Jennifer Hermoso. (Hermoso, by the way, means beautiful in Spanish, but opinions vary.) It didn’t seem…