The fashion industry is in a chicken-and-egg relationship with societal changes. Does fashion drive lifestyle changes, or does it merely respond to them? The 1980s were a watershed period when France and Italy made decisions that shaped the destinies of their fashion and garment industries. And then along came someone...

It has become fashionable to apologize for historical misdeeds… But frequently such gestures manage to obfuscate history rather than to clarify it. This infamous lynching has suffered such a fate. It is an understatement to say that the events that led up to it have been grossly oversimplified.

Although America sees itself as a moral paragon of world leadership, the reality has fallen far short on many occasions in our history. Today we are living through a crisis, but the massacre at Christchurch in New Zealand has demonstrated that moral and responsible leaders still exist

What can be a better indicator of lifestyle changes than how and what people eat. What do these trends tell us about our needs, desires, frustrations and aspirations? Even as a business model the meal kit sector is unsustainable from many angles.

In the wake of the Vatican Summit, that proved to be ineffectual and disappointing, and the cynical refusal of Pope Francis to acknowledge the extent of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, we need to ask ourselves some hard questions about parents' responsibilities towards their kids.

Our political philosophies, regardless of party, have become untethered from ethics and morality and supplanted by political expediency and rage. It is truly ironic that a man widely considered to be inarticulate, uninformed and perhaps downright unintelligent has coined the concept of “fake news.”

Il movimento dello slow food diede rapidamente piede a nuovi modi di essere “slow”. Adesso, per esempio, abbiamo lo “slow travel”, un modo di viaggiare che cerca di incoraggiare la piena integrazione del viaggiatore nella vita locale, l’abilità di sentirsi connesso ad una località, alla sua cultura e alla sua...

Petrini’s  slow food movement led to all other kinds of “slow.” We now have slow travel, for example. That is, travel that seeks the opportunity to become part of local life and to connect to a place, its people  and its culture. Slow education, whose guiding philosophy is  a curriculum...

Even when the transplantation is by choice, it must involve some level of cultural compromise. The arrogance, then, of those who consider that anything less than full Italian authenticity cannot exist outside of Italy –  as if some such thing could exist even inside of today’s multicultural  Italy – is...