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Children sent to the slaughter

The ideology behind the massacres of children and the crushing of compassion

The Nazis’ relentless persecution of very young Russians – all potential spies – the ‘Children’s Crusade’, and images from war zones. The only thing worse than seeing children murdered is seeing children as murderers. Like those in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.

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Siegmund Ginzberg

7 SEP 26

Hitler welcomed by farmers on National Harvest Day, 1937 (Getty image)

Il Foglio’s supplements

Tinto Brass: beyond the bum

One of the major films from the brief but intense “pop art” phase of Italian cinema, “Col cuore in gola”, has been restored by Netflix and the National Film Archive for the Venice Film Festival. Thus, the avant-garde Tinto is rediscovered

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7 SEP 26

A preview of the restored version of Tinto Brass’s 1967 film "Col cuore in gola" was screened at the Venice Film Festival.

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The fatalistic bees and that knot of inexorable causality untangled by Wallace

Einaudi has published the undergraduate thesis in which student David Foster Wallace refuted the conclusions of philosopher and beekeeper Richard Clyde Taylor. A passionate defence of human freedom that takes us to the heart of a career and a worldview

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Alessandra Iadicicco

7 SEP 26

“Against Fatalism” (Einaudi) by David Foster Wallace is edited by Guido Baggio (who also translated the book) and Mario De Caro (photo: Getty)

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Daddy’s boys

How much does one’s surname matter when it comes to gaining power in Latin America? And some dynasties are linked to the wave of pro-Trump governments

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Maurizio Stefanini

7 SEP 26

Keiko Fujimori has been President of Peru since 28 July. Her father, Alberto, held the post from 1990 to 2000 (Getty image)

Apocalypse Day

The day history changed forever in Manhattan

25 years on from 9/11: explaining the horror to Gen Z. Starting from the 1980s to piece together the puzzle, with all the pieces already on the table

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7 SEP 26

It is now estimated that the number of deaths caused by illnesses resulting from breathing the air at Ground Zero for months has exceeded the number of victims on the day itself (photo: Jose Jimenez/Getty)

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The Most Serene Rulers of Sicily

Scianna and Emma Dante with Buttafuoco in Venice: photography and theatre in a city whose history has never grown old

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Vittorio Bongiorno

7 SEP 26

The exhibition ‘Ferdinando Scianna at the Venice Ghetto’ is on display at the Ikona Gallery until 22 November (photo courtesy of the artist)

From memes to data centres

The AI of our discontent

Forty years on from Chernobyl, AI is the new nuclear power and data centres are its power stations. Everyone needs it, everyone fears it. Hatred of AI has brought Jane Fonda and Steve Bannon together

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Michele Masneri

5 SEP 26

The AI of our discontent

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Zuckerberg’s pigeons. The research behind social media addiction

Dopamine fuelled Michelangelo and Napoleon; now it keeps us glued to our screens and produces the devastating effect of cognitive flattening, with the predictable consequence of increased suggestibility and a decline in fundamental critical and judgemental abilities.

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Carmelo Zaffora

5 SEP 26

Photo by Jonas Leupe on Unsplash

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The brigade of left-wing know-it-alls

Once, when it was Marxist, it saw itself as the guardian and custodian of the laws of history. Now, after history had taken a different turn, it began to see itself as the guardian and custodian of ethics and even aesthetics. From Luigi Pintor’s ‘plebs’ to Stefano Bonaccini. 1994: the horror of those who go to nightclubs and football grounds, and the revolt of the elites

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Pierluigi Battista

5 SEP 26

Piero Natoli and Sabrina Ferilli in “Ferie d’agosto”, which depicted the contrast between boisterous, uncultured Italy and the Italy of intellectual political correctness

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Saturday and Sunday in Il Foglio. What’s in the weekend supplements

This weekend, the newspaper features a twelve-page cultural supplement. Here’s what you’ll find at newsagents

4 SEP 26

Edgar Degas, "Prima della corsa", 1882–1884

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