We don’t know who our children are. It is a kind of collective cry bouncing from headlines to talk shows and the web in the public debate in Italy and beyond. The shock comes from watching a series that is […]
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In Ventotene, Romans or Latians living in the southern part of the region generally go there for sunbathing or a rejuvenating boat trip. After perhaps passing through the more glamorous neighboring island of Ponza. And perhaps American friends, or specifically
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The sophisticated book La Signora Italiana (Castelvecchi Editions) is dedicated to the women of Italy. They embody the charm, style, and beauty that have always distinguished Italy, the timeless capital of fashion, design, and art. This is a book that
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Between peace and like there is only a phoneme, a phoneme that creates a relationship of musical, almost playful alliteration, but at the same time digs up abysmal political and cultural differences. I have heard it and I have read
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It is an American story, certainly. But it is also a story, humanly and dis-humanly, universal. Italy’s largest newspaper, Corriere della Sera, has for days been devoting entire pages to the death in solitude, extreme loneliness, of one of Hollywood’s
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Reality or political realism or better yet real politik? Certainly, real politik was once nocturnal, submerged, elusive by the light of public discourse. Today it makes use of new communication technologies to reach as many audiences as possible in the
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family, on the other hand, is unhappy in its own way. It is the famous incipit of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and we journalists abuse it whenever possible. Also to talk about the German
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The word of the week is definitely at least for now MEGA, which we will then translate now into its meaning, because acronyms always have to be translated: because I think so in Italian it can be the first part
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We have talked a lot about Trump, Trump’s trials and convictions, the relationship between justice and politics in the United States. Today let’s talk a little bit about the relationship between justice and politics in Italy, since we are in
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The theme of the week is definitely Trump’s Inauguration Day. Donald Trump has officially taken office in the White House and is no longer President-elect, but true President of the United States for the second time after losing in 2020,
