Society & Culture

On June 11, 2001, exactly three months before 9/11, Americans sat comfortably on their couches as they were transported via their television screens to Terre Haute, Indiana. That was the setting for the execution of the country's top…

The nineteenth century French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville was writing about “l’ancien regime” less than a lifetime after the 1789 French Revolution. The French people, Tocqueville wrote, had cut their destiny in two and were…

Il 2011 si sta rivelando un anno di svolta per la politica spagnola. Da una parte, i giovani indignados hanno invaso e continuano a invadere la scena pubblica del paese, richiamandosi direttamente alle dimostrazioni a cui i loro coetanei…

L'analisi dei dati del Census 2010, compiuta su Aspenia online e neodemos.it dal Professor Livi Bacci, ci aiuta a confermare le interpretazioni dell'America politica ed elettorale prodotte negli ultimi anni. Da quando cioè ci si interroga…

Since the Arab Spring has also reached Syria, many Israelis feel as if the world around them is crumbling down: the new Egyptian government just decided to open up the border to Gaza at the Rafah crossing; the Palestinian factions Fatah and…