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“Motivated by self-interest, an immense syndicate of numerous subagents and recruiters spreads out in the Italian countryside to hunt men, just like in Kansas they track down wild beasts. All of these people from various occupations, live speculating and profiteering...

The impeachment and subsequent trial are not for us who lived through his presidency; they are to set the record straight for our grandchildren and theirs, on the viciousness of the Trump presidency, and must be a cautionary tale about...

Mostly neglected by history, Teruzzi was always close to Mussolini, physically and ideologically. The enforcer of discipline among the Fascist Blackshirt militia, he played a pivotal role in the march on Rome in 1922 which brought Mussolini to power. In...

“As soon as we heard about the removal of the statue in front of the Heritage Wall we asked the municipality for permission to transfer the statue to our club. The idea was immediately approved by the members of the...

The idea that women could only be ridiculous as leaders has persisted for a couple of millennia and is now embedded in our culture.What happened in the past does not count, we now have the chance to elect a female...

Cancel culture, as a weapon of political correctness, is the enemy of free speech. When it starts dictating what can be said and what cannot be said, then democracy is at death’s door. Young people should be the most open...

I have admired the books of Yuval Noah Harari for years. The pause imposed by the coronavirus was an opportunity to write an article about Les Annales, the historiographic school whose footsteps Harari walks in, and to talk about History...

One of the first cities in Italy to serve coffee and bring it to prominence, for the past few centuries Venice, and in particular Piazza San Marco, has been like a magnet, drawing flocks of celebrities who wished to pay...