democracy

“Without exception we are responsible for the results of our actions and the influence we have on society,” so taught the Italian humanist Vittorino da Feltre (1373-1446) in the fourteenth century. Today, this lesson is often forgotten,…

Negli ultimi mesi, sia in Nord Africa che nel Vicino Oriente è stata messa in opera una simile operazione di rinnovamento legislativo per migliorare la condizione delle donne; in special modo, l’obiettivo concreto era quello di abrogare…

 Il recente libro di Mattia Ferraresi “Il secolo greve – Alle origini del nuovo disordine mondiale”* va alla ricerca delle radici di una crisi in atto: quella dell’ordine di matrice americana e occidentale. E rintraccia le origini del…

A century was not enough for Russia to absorb not only the effects, but the reasons for the 1917 Revolution. Both Russian society and government still lack a consensus on whether it was one of the greatest tragedies, or an idealistic and…

A century after Russia’s 1917 revolutions, the current government has hardly reflected on either event. As noted by American historian Chris Miller and others, the symbolism of the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and the October…