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, while reserving the possibility of looking at its historic and institutional meaning (this is electoral reform?) in a few weeks.
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 sickle became a tiny ever-shrinking symbol at the bottom of a new forest of oak trees (the “post-Communists”) and olive trees (the coalition first initiated by...
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 Switch to the arrival in its leadership ranks of figures as diverse as Amendola and Pajetta. And inspired by the current fireworks, we have...
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 ashes of the past? Consider the following as the apologia with which we started.
Capecchi. Bisogna prendere un Nobel per essere famosi in Italia?
Il professor Michele Pagano interviene sul rapporto che i media italiani hanno con il mondo della ricerca prendendo spunto dal Nobel,
"Chi è intervistato per parlare di Capecchi dal Corriere della Sera? E dalla Repubblica? Fate una ricerca con il nome degli scienziati chiamati in causa nel sito di Pubmed per vedere chi sono e quale è l’impact factor delle loro publicazioni. Non vi sorprendete se troverete poco e niente."
Nobel per la medicina. Italiano, americano o italoamericano?
“E’ Italiano il Nobel per la medicina”. Non per il New York Times il quale titola i propri articoli con “Two Americans won the Nobel Price”. Poi ovviamente America Oggi lo definisce “italoamericano”.
Un siparietto che vede la stampa italiana e americana e i rispettivi Paesi in competizione.
The Italian Vote Abroad: The Analysis Goes On
Saturday, October 5th. The University of New York at Stony Brook held a conference entitled: “Altreitalie: cittadinanza e diritto di voto,” organized by the Center for Italian Studies.
Italians at the Metropolitan Opera
You can’t say they are an army but they are close. I am talking about the Italians at the Metropolitan Opera, those both onstage and backstage of one of the most famous theaters in the world. Counting singers, conductors, assistants, musicians, productors, and designers, they are nearly 50, without considering those who in some ways have Italian origins.
Protesters Disrupt Columbus Parade in Denver
It isn't the first time - and won't be the last. Columbus Day is a controversial event in America and a subject the Italian/American community should be prepared to discuss openly and non-conventionally.
“Istituto virtuale” o virtuali “di chiara fama”?
Intervista con il prof. Michele Pagano* che occupa una posizione di rilievo nell'ambiente scientifico americano da anni. Idee controcorrente, provocatorie . Un vero attacco alla disinformazione di certi media italiani. Ma non solo, il ricercatore avanza anche una proposta concreta. Verrà presa in considerazione?
Veronica. Mission Impossible
Walter Veltroni, future leader of the newborn Italian Democratic Party, courts, politically of course, Veronica Lario, wife of Silvio Berlusconi, the well-known leader of the Center Right alliance
“Migrantes”: a Report about ‘Italians' Spread Around the Word
The Catholic immigration organization “Migrantes” released a report stating that more people have emigrated from Italy than any other industrialized country over the last 150 years
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