Society - Il Foglio

the analysis

The perverse fascination with violence

The hammer and the spanner are re-emerging, symbols of a new ruthlessness. And then there is the pogrom of 7 October, the ferocity of the regimes, the symbolic burning of books, the cruelty in the streets. A growing hostility to which we now seem to have become accustomed

Pierluigi Battista

12 OCT 26

The violence at the recent protests in France (AP photo via LaPresse)

Magazine

Tuscany Ghetto. When anti-Zionism turns Jews into a foreign body

In this region, known for its pacifism and resistance and heir to the legacy of Giorgio La Pira, Jews have become a colonial variable: from the streets to council meetings, from boycotts of Israeli medicines to discrimination against Jewish tourists. The return of the scapegoat under the banner of peace. A round-up

Giulio Meotti

10 OCT 26

Tuscany Ghetto. When anti-Zionism turns Jews into a foreign body

Cosmetic surgery conference in Capri

The Sweet Life of the Scalpel

Noses, tummies and rocket-like breasts. And then there are the unknowns of social media and artificial intelligence. From Rio to Istanbul, surgeons from around the world gathered at Fantozzi’s hotel

Michele Masneri

10 OCT 26

Between emotionalism and moral sentiment

There is no need to prove the facts; a reconstructed reality is sufficient. Beyond Naza

Fiction? Reality? It doesn’t matter; what matters is that it reflects our moral sentiment

Michele Silenzi

10 OCT 26

WINE THIEVES

They steal to resell. However, given the bottles they do not steal, neither they nor their customers appear to appreciate the wine.

The recent bottle thefts have mainly targeted the wines of those who love to show off. I know a few of these pathetic show-offs – well-off, middle-aged men who are always champagne-drinkers and almost always Francophiles – the least interesting type of person there is

Camillo Langone

9 OCT 26

Discussing the illness

It is no longer possible to argue with Barbara Spinelli, but reporting on cancer is also a civic duty

This illness affects everyone; it strikes everyone; and those who can tell its story create literature, but they also help the poor souls caught up in it to find their bearings at the moment of greatest bewilderment. We might as well talk about it rather than pretend nothing is happening, given that nothing is

Camilla Baresani

9 OCT 26

the interview

Hate and indifference. How the world has changed for young Jews since 7 October

Life in Italian universities according to Maia Piperno, president of Ugei: “What was a pogrom against the Jews is, for some, still a day of resistance. The Anti-Semitism Bill? We need it.”

Luca Roberto

7 OCT 26

Hate and indifference. How the world has changed for young Jews since 7 October

Saverio, that’s right

Only painters and slackers like an extra sixty minutes of daylight. The farce of daylight saving time

What’s happening on Sunday 25 October – do we have to turn the clocks back an hour or not? Good reasons to oppose the legalisation of daylight saving time

Saverio Raimondo

7 OCT 26

video

Nostalgia for ‘Grandma’s house’? Not just that. Young people discovering vintage

Whilst the crisis in 19th-century antique furniture persists, the younger generations seem to be taking an increasing interest in furniture, homeware and clothing from the second half of the 20th century. This trend has been labelled, particularly abroad and on social media, as ‘grandmacore’. And in Italy? A journey amongst the traders at Mercanteinfiera in Parma

Francesco Cocco

6 OCT 26

magazine

A wedding with divorce on the horizon

Getting married (in a religious ceremony!) but keeping assets separate. This makes the family an increasingly unwelcoming place for children

Roberto Volpi

5 OCT 26

Daniela Rocca and Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s “Divorzio all’italiana” (1961)

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