Gothic
April 9, 2008
Finale. Understanding Italian Politics. Sunday: The Page Turns
For the last five or six years this peculiar column, called Gothic for reasons not worth repeating, has trailed around the pages of Oggi7, the distinguished and...
January 10, 2008
Understanding Italian Politics: A Pause for Reflection
We are told, by no less a voice than the New York Times (which, like most American papers, has trouble focussing on Italy if popes, earthquakes, or the Mafia are not involved),...
November 25, 2007
Understanding Italian Politics: Sommeliers and Judges
What we expect from wine stewards and judges is discrimination --- the ability to make fine distinctions...
November 4, 2007
Understanding Italian Politics: Forleo in History
Clementina Forleo
We are lured away from our exploration of electoral politics by the fog-bound current case of magistrate Clementina Forleo. She has already made her mark on history. ...
October 30, 2007
Understanding Italian Politics: The Voter in Chains
In our first column we reviewed a series of conceptual frameworks for understanding the importance (or lack) of this month’s founding of the Partito democratico. One of the most...
October 17, 2007
Why Gothic? Why a Yank?
This initiative supported by the J.D. Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY) is bound to feature some brilliant commentary on current politics. But not in this column.
October 10, 2007
i-Italy Gothic One
This wonderful digital initiative, i-Italy, is, for those concerned with Italian politics, born under a cloud. By chance, it arrives at the same moment as the birth, in Italy, of...
October 10, 2007
The Colossus of Milan
(This article was first published in US Italia weekly on May 28, 2006) We suggested last week that the true derailing of the Historic Compromise was not the cruel destruction of...
October 10, 2007
Derailed!
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on May 21, 2006) We have seen that the 1970s effort at make-over by the post-Togliatti leadership at Communist Party headquarters...
October 10, 2007
Sources of Pride
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on May 14, 2006) Chance seated me at lunch last week next to a correspondent for the British weekly that, five years ago, had...
October 10, 2007
The Long Red Trek
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on May 7, 2006) The slogging of thousands of Communists across the mountains of interior China, however remarkable politically and...
October 10, 2007
The Comrade Goes to Church
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 30, 2006) If the results of this month’s election indicate any shift away from the politics of personality back to an...
