Gothic
October 10, 2007
Uncommon Common Ground
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 23, 2006) Not being newsworthy enough for the front page, nor sufficiently cultured to qualify for a terza pagina, this...
October 10, 2007
My Friend the Enemy
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 16, 2006) We leave comments from the arena of last Sunday’s bloody joust to the sages-of-the-immediate on Page One,...
October 10, 2007
The Longest Bridge
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 9, 2006) Having explored some varieties of Communist experience in Italy, up through the moment when the hammer and...
October 10, 2007
A Man and His Chamber
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on April 2, 2006) We have been tracing the path of Italian Communism from anti-Fascism (clandestine and open) through the Salerno...
October 10, 2007
The Crossroads Communist
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 26, 2006) Since our goal here is to understand today’s politics, why have we spent several columns raking through the...
October 8, 2007
The Crossroads Communist
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 26, 2006) Since our goal here is to understand today’s politics, why have we spent several columns raking through the...
October 8, 2007
Red: Different Shades
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 19, 2006) Palmiro Togliatti’s dramatic switch in Salerno (our focus in several recent columns)—transforming an...
October 8, 2007
The Conflict over the Magistrates: Stand Back from the Blaze
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 12, 2006) The gutter salvos of the principals in the election campaign, with accompanying modeling of silly T-shirts,...
October 8, 2007
How to Flip a Switch
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on March 5 2006) Last week, we reviewed the possible reasons for the 1944 Salerno Switch (in which Palmiro Togliatti, having made...
October 8, 2007
The Moscow Factor
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 26, 2006) We have been focusing on what we have dubbed the Salerno Switch, Palmiro Togliatti’s peremptory arrival...
October 8, 2007
The Guns in the Hills
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 19, 2006) Last week we watched Palmiro Togliatti’s peremptory shanghaiing of the 1944 gathering of the Communist...
October 8, 2007
The Salerno Switch
(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on February 12, 2006) On the afternoon of March 27, 1944, the recognized leader of Italian Communism, Palmiro Togliatti, probably...
