Trump is making the mid-term elections his own personal battle, but the left does not appear particularly keen to win (not just in America). The prevailing approach seems to be doing one’s best to lose rather than to secure victory. There is no single formula for success. Many on the right, and especially on the left, are giving it their all. 

From television to newspapers, the media whitewash them with euphemisms. The result is a story rewritten in reverse. No longer is it the action that leads to tragedy, but rather the tragedy that, retrospectively, gives rise to a noble cause      

With his “Favola”, now finally available in Italian, the philosopher caused a scandal. An ode to vices, luxury and the insatiable thirst for approval that lies at the root of human morality

A highly exceptional intellectual, misunderstood by the heroes of our time. A film celebrates his life story

Seventy years ago, “Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina” was a huge hit in Italian cinemas. However, critics described his brilliant, hammy performance as caricatured and vulgar

Reread his essay on hipsters and discover that the revolution has taken place. But in reverse

How climate catastrophes ushered humanity into the modern age. A new account

Antonio Ingroia steps into the fray as ‘Borsellino’s colleague’. The trope of the Mafia hunter is now a well-worn cliché

From nuclear Armageddon to the ‘Medioevo prossimo venturo’ to Covid. We are now caught in the AI trap, and those who unleashed it are beginning to tremble. But between the Cassandras of the twenty-first century and the new Manhattan Projects, there is a third way