NIAF. Two Days of Italian/American Affairs
This past weekend, October 12 and 13, the National Italian American Foundation held its annual gala in Washington, DC
iNobel
Al Gore, 59 years old: former Vice-president of the United States, businessman, Hollywood superstar, media mogul, high-tech guru, environmental crusader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. What is this man made of? (and what is he looking for?)
What is in a Name? Primary Elections, Italian Style
A attempt to explain what Italians really mean when they speak about “primary elections”
Una stella nell'universo dei campioni
Andrei Howe Besozzi. In molti lo definiscono l’erede di Carl Lewis. Il talento è giovane e a parere degli addetti ai lavori le potenzialità per migliorare sono tante. Ai microfoni Rai, spiega il perché delle sue urla in lingua inglese : “Avevo paura che mi uscisse qualche parola brutta in italiano!”
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 the Partito democratico.
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 Aldo Moro, which might very well, by demonizing the enemies of the Compromesso, have enlarged the ranks of its supporters, but the developing thundercloud in the...
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 in Via Botteghe Oscure had had enough success in managing the issues of the relation to the U.S. and to NATO, and had found so much social and...
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 devoted a cover to the pronouncement that Silvio Berlusconi was “unfit” to govern Italy. I asked if his magazine intended now to run a cover declaring Romano Prodi “fit” to govern Italy.
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 athletically, seems no more tortured than the political journey of the gray men of Botteghe Oscure [the historic location of the PCI’seadquarters in Rome] from the...
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 interest in party programs—the coalition publishing an indigestible 200 pages worth of, supposedly, a coherent...
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 Gothic column tries quietly, week by week, to build its structure of long-term understanding of the Italian political culture in the comfortably independent Siberia of...
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