Geoffrey Edmund Fox

Spain: Remembering & re-remembering

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." -- attributed to Mark Twain

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Religion & its practical consequences

James, William. 1902. The Varieties of Religious Experience: Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902. Garden City, NY: Dolphin Books, Doubleday & Company.

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Capitalism: Good for cities & citizens?

Terrible things are happening all over the world. Rainforests are disappearing, icecaps melting, the air is becoming unbreathable, and the Chinese are poisoning our toothpaste. And besides all that, there are people who want to kill us, although they don't even know us.

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This week in Spain

This article covers the week of 29 September to 5 October 2007, originally posted (with photos) 5 Oct. on Literature & Society. For article posted 12 Oct., see Spain: Bubbles, bombs & bombast.

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Roots & wings: Toward cosmopolitan utopia

In his much-praised recent book, Ulrich Beck, German sociologist and professor at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, demonstrates why neither nation-states nor international capital alone can save us from the many dangers of the "globalized" globe, and proposes an allianc …

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Spain: Bubbles, bombs & bombast

It wasn't the story that got the most media attention in Spain this week, but it may be the one with the most serious long-term impact: The combined debt of builders, realtors and families for housing in this country is now as big as the entire gross domestic product of Spain! Un …

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Author of several books on Latin America, Geoffrey Fox now lives and writes in Spain.

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