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October 28, 2021 Commentage

The Real Greek Tragedy: Ancient Beauty and Grim, Modern Despair

By William J. Furney If the gorgeous gods of ancient Greece could see how people in their beloved country that gave the world the essential freedom of democracy live now,

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October 17, 2021 Commentage / Culture

The Dictatorship of Wokeism and Cancel Culture

By William J. Furney It’s a crisp Saturday morning in claustrophobic Central Athens and as I run past street stalls setting up for the day alongside buildings festooned in loud

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March 6, 2021 Commentage / Reportage

African Migrants in the Canaries: Not a Drop of Water to Drink

By William J. Furney PLAYA DEL INGLES — On a run early this morning on the subtropical island of Gran Canaria, just across a short stretch of sea from the

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January 10, 2021 Commentage

Frau Spiegl Needs Some Help

By William J. Furney I wasn’t so much invited into her apartment as ushered in without much of a choice, or a mask. “Kein problem,” she said, but it could

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November 29, 2020 Commentage

Waiting to Exhale (without a Mask)

By William J. Furney Families are having to pay many hundreds of euros for negative coronavirus tests to get into places like Spain, placing an additional burden on them in

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November 22, 2020 Commentage

Unwelcome Strangers in a Very Strange Land

By William J. Furney MASPALOMAS — They move like spooked yet expectant ghosts in this fat land. Their exotic, ebony skin is an anomaly on an homogenous island renowned for

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