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October 8, 2007

The Elixir for Everything

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia Weekly on January 15 2006) Last month in these pages Stefano Vaccara interviewed the economist Francesco Giavazzi, who previously in an....

October 8, 2007

The Thaw Begins

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on December 24, 2005) Further along our trail of broken promises, interruptions in the orderly construction of an understanding...

October 8, 2007

The Deep Freeze

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on December 18, 2005) We come in from the cold of contemplating George Bush’s Awful Autumn to return to the building of our...

October 8, 2007

The Iron Clad Rule

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on December 11, 2005) This last of our considerations of the relation between the current American presidential malaise and the...

October 8, 2007

Rash and Dangerous

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on December 4, 2005) George Bush’s awful autumn has led us to break our construction project to reflect on how the upcoming...

October 8, 2007

The Slowly Ticking Clock

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on November 27, 2005) The eminent political scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote recently that “everything went wrong for...

October 7, 2007

Rites, not Races

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in US Italia weekly on November 20, 2005) Last time we asserted that the most important new (last twenty years) personality on the Italian political....

October 7, 2007

The Voter in Chains

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared on US Italia weekly on November 13, 2005) We promised in the first Gothic column to introduce the most important new political figure in Italy in the...

October 7, 2007

Why Gothic?

Stanton H. Burnett

(This article first appeared in UsItalia weekly on October 30, 2005) This column will develop a structure of understanding of the background, practices, code words and quirks of....

October 7, 2007

Should We Celebrate Columbus Day? And Why?

Fred Gardaphe

Columbus, like many figures of history, has outlived his usefulness for all Americans, but for Italian Americans he continues to represent the struggle their immigrant forbearers...

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