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
Last updated: 05:59 PM
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Edgar Degas, "Prima della corsa", 1882–1884

This weekend, the newspaper features a twelve-page cultural supplement. Here’s what you’ll find on newsstands (and you can also download it here from 10.30 pm on Friday)
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A terrifying future. Fear of AI manages to unite everyone, from Jane Fonda to Steve Bannon. Forty years after Chernobyl, artificial intelligence is the new nuclear power. And data centres are the new nuclear power stations – by Michele Masneri
Apocalypse Day. 25 years after 9/11: explaining the horror to Gen Z. Starting with the 1980s to piece together the puzzle, with all the pieces already on the table – by Marco Bardazzi
Children sent to the slaughter. The Nazis’ relentless persecution of Russian children, all seen as potential spies. The ideology behind the massacres and the crushing of compassion – by Siegmund Ginzberg
Daddy’s boys. How much does a family name matter when it comes to gaining power in Latin America? And some dynasties are linked to the wave of pro-Trump governments – by Maurizio Stefanini
The brigade of know-it-alls. From Pintor’s ‘plebs’ to Bonaccini. 1994: horror for those who go to nightclubs and football grounds, and the revolt of the elites – by Pierluigi Battista
Fatalist bees. This is how the undergraduate David Foster Wallace delivered a formidable defence of human freedom. Starting with the philosopher Richard Taylor – by Alessandra Iadicicco
Zuckerberg’s pigeons. Dopamine fuelled Michelangelo and Napoleon; now it keeps us glued to our screens. The research behind social media addiction – by Carmelo Zaffora
The dark side of industrial giants. From Fiat to Luxottica: how and why empires crumble. Dynasties on the wane, starting with the Del Vecchio case. In Italy, over the past thirty years, the leading players in the automotive, telecoms and textile sectors have disappeared… Are we doomed to ‘small is beautiful’? – by Stefano Cingolani
Non-erotic Brass. Beyond the buttocks: ‘Col cuore in gola’ restored by Netflix and the National Film Archive. Rediscovering the avant-garde Tinto – by Andrea Minuz
The Most Serene Republic of Sicily. Scianna and Emma Dante with Buttafuoco in Venice: photography and theatre in a city whose history has never grown old – by Vittorio Bongiorno
Nuovo Cinema Mancuso. This week’s films, the hottest series and the Venice Film Festival, as reported by Mariarosa Mancuso