Society & Culture

One of the great ironies regarding the figure of Donald Trump is his positioning on the conventional notion of the political spectrum. While the current president appears to be extreme in many ways, the reality is that in both of his…

Cosa farà l’Europa da grande non lo sa nessuno, innanzitutto perché ignoriamo quanto grande possa diventare l’Europa. E non si tratta solo delle metriche di solito usate per misurare la grandezza. Quindi l’estensione, il peso economico, la…

Quali sono le radici culturali e ideologiche del trumpismo? Abbiamo superato da molto tempo quella fase in cui si supponeva che le ideologie si fossero esaurite con la “fine della storia” annunciata da Fukuyama all’alba degli anni ‘90. E…

Most revolutionaries have some idea of a replacement for the institutions they topple. And, surely, some in Donald Trump’s orbit do. (For a good summary, see the just-published summary of this agenda, by David Graham, The Project: How…

Francis, as the first Latin American Pope and the first non-European Pope of the modern age, was expected to bring a new approach to the geopolitical views of the Vatican. According to most analysts, he did, with a significant reorientation…