In the 1969 classic, “The Graduate”, young Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) is pulled aside by Mr. McGuire, one his father’s friends and given some unforgettable advice about his future: “Plastics”, he says, “….there’s a great future in plastics”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMtLdE5Zq-8 It seems hard to believe now that there was...

“These events were never studied, quantified, or even acknowledged by our government in any way until the department of justice issued a report in 2001… It can be easy to think that some of these actions were justified because we were at war, but none of these people had committed...

Ma chi era veramente, Anna Delvey o Anna Sorokin? Una ricca ereditiera tedesca con un padre da 60 milioni di dollari, o una squattrinata dalle abitudini truffaldine? Dal canto suo Anna doveva ritenersi una genietta, laddove gli altri plebei "erano tutti così banali!". L'indagine e il successivo processo celebratosi nel...

Who was she, Anna Delvey or Anna Sorokin? Was she a German trust-fund baby whose daddy was worth 60 million dollars or poor and on the make? In her mind Anna was a genius, while the rest of us “are all so basic!”. The investigation and subsequent trial that was...

Dall’11 settembre in poi, i problemi del secolo scorso sembrano impallidire in confronto a quelli del nuovo millennio. Le guerre – calde e fredde, culturali e militari –, il crescente divario di ricchezza, l’accelerazione del riscaldamento globale e della crescita della popolazione, le conseguenti carestie, tutto ciò ci ha afflitto......

Ever since 9/11 the troubles of the past century seem to have paled in comparison to those of the new millennium. The wars—hot and cold, cultural and military—the increasing poverty gap, the acceleration of global warming and of population growth, the famines that have consequentially ensued, these have all plagued...