Populism

Before this anthropological more than political drift, the temptation many contemporary liberal thinkers – be they from the left or right – is to adopt a defensive position. Yet, in so doing what is fostered is, paradoxically, the “we/them” juxtaposition...

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared last week that Italy will “not be Europe’s refugee camp.” Trump paralled this statement today, saying “the United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility.”

Fifty years ago, on an important night for the Democratic primaries, candidate Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former President, JFK, died in Los Angeles. RFK understood right away that, more than Communism, it was the Mafia and its relationship...

New Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, leader of far-right Lega party, during a visit to Sicily, makes harsh remarks about NGOs that rescue migrants and accuses Tunisian government of sending "convicts" to Italy. We asked the U.N. for their...

European institutions are a kind of socio-cultural miracle, because they have shown that it is possible for identity and universalism to foster each other and in so doing make democracy and peace reality. But in the past two years, this...

Populism grows with anti-establishment resentment, in which a large percentage of the population feels that wealth is not separated from political influence and representative democracy lacks a fair distribution of citizen power. The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook...