A definition of the new Donroe Corollary: transaction, coercion, extortion and, most importantly, a resurrection of Monroe Doctrine.
Blood, Oil and Bad Bets: Investing in Venezuela Redux
A brief look at high-risk, low-reward investments speculating on a ruined state.
Virility in Venezuela Redux
On Uncle Sam snatching Maduro, and impotence in the Venezuelan military and greater Latin America.
Get In Where You Fit In … Or Don’t
Non-conformity and the intentional outsider, the men who don’t fit in, is a deliberate and recurring act, a choice to never settle, to be always on the hunt for the strange and new.
Expat Manifesto: Travel Won’t Fix Your Problems
Breaking down Emerson’s condemnation of travel, where his argument is flawed, and Daniel Defoe’s manifesto for the men who don’t fit in.
Here Nothing Must Die and Nothing Must Change
From Maria Chapdelaine to the FLQ, tracing Quebec’s enduring identity through the Catholic Church, the forest and the struggle.
Expat Chronicles 