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US Vice President and American Catholic J.D. Vance sat down for an interview with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat at the US Embassy to the Holy See in Rome last May. Douthat:  So we’re here in Rome, the day after the papal…

For the first time since 1965, a US president federalized the National Guard without a formal request for intervention from a governor to restore order. Sixty years ago, it was President Lyndon B. Johnson who sent troops to Alabama to…

La lunga storia della Fed si può riepilogare con un epigramma: fu l’ultima banca centrale ad arrivare, ma si trovò a diventare la prima. L’atto di nascita ufficiale della Federal Reserve fu registrato dal Congresso degli Stati…

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…

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…