I’m a British writer and novelist, living in Barcelona, putting pen to paper to talk about sex, politics, history, landscapes and loves. I’m the author of two stupid novels, Chubz: The Demonization of My Working Arse and...
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Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
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I’m a professor of American history.
I have toyed with the idea writing for years, and I have finally found my particular niche. My primary goal was, and still remains, to write a story that I would like to read. I am humbled and delighted that ya'll (yes I AM Southern) wil…
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What is a good life? A good life is a comprehensive endeavor. It’s the slow business of understanding the systems we live in and how they affect us. It’s learning about ourselves, our parents, and our children. It’s welcoming change and...
I’ll be covering the play by play of the current pandemic-induced global depression and how policymakers should respond to it as well as assessing how they actually are responding. My focus here will be monetary analysis, which is not the same thing
No matter how many hours we spend in an office, in the car, caring for patients or children or client accounts, at the end of the day we all come home. I’ll be writing here about my stay-at-home findings, but you don’t have to be a