Itxu Díaz, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Itxu Díaz
Itxu Díaz is a Spanish journalist, political satirist, and author. He has written 10 books on topics as diverse as politics, music, and smart appliances. He is a contributor to The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, National Review, American Conservative, and Diario Las Américas in the United States, as well as a columnist at several Spanish magazines and newspapers. He was also an adviser to the Ministry for Education, Culture, and Sports in Spain.
by | Mar 15, 2024

I am writing from a roadside bar. These remote places still exist in the West, on the port or starboard side of a highway, with a frowning owner, and liquor bottles blanketed with dust. They are places that were born…

by | Mar 12, 2024

I woke up with unusual energy, as if I had fallen straight out of a Michael Jackson music video. I grabbed my notebook, my sunglasses, and a coffee to go, then went to write in the sun by the sea….

by | Mar 9, 2024

As I begin the promotion of my new book, I Will Not Eat Crickets (my first in the United States), I am delighted to see that the best campaign is being waged against me by those to whom I declare…

by | Mar 5, 2024

As I write this, Super Tuesday is ongoing, and we don’t know the results yet, but whatever. Whatever the elections, there is one thing we have already learned: Donald Trump wins, if the system lets him.  There is a sense…

by | Mar 1, 2024

A couple of days ago, while on my way to the train’s cafeteria, I bumped into an overly wide lady wearing overly narrow heels. Her heel dug into my foot violently, and, amid the silence of the carriage, my outburst…

by | Feb 27, 2024

We are the conservatives, and we like good, truth, and beauty. That is, we like Pope John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Ivanka Trump. We also like beer, but I don’t want to detract from the solemnity of the…

by | Feb 24, 2024

Nate Loewentheil has written a guest essay in the New York Times. He proposes something quite amusing: to build a wall of climate shame. A towering wall on a Washington lot. A marble wall, perhaps. A wall engraved with the…

by | Feb 20, 2024

The day had started out calm and sunny, until, for some strange reason, I opened the newspaper. There I learned that there is a mad scientist working to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth. Seriously. A company named Colossal is working…

by | Feb 16, 2024

Some people find God after falling off a horse, but most Christians approach faith on a day-to-day basis through a cocktail made up of God’s grace, prayer, the cultivation of virtues and sacraments, and also, to some extent, human affections….

by | Feb 13, 2024

Talking is easy. It happens when air passes from the lungs through airways and the larynx, making the vocal cords vibrate and resulting in sounds that, in most adults, we interpret as language. When those sounds correspond to the concrete…

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