Who (isn’t) coming to dinner. Over the past thirty years, Italians have been seeing their friends less often, are living alone more frequently and are turning their free time into time spent on their own. Friendship hasn’t disappeared: it has simply become harder to find the time and the desire to spend time together

If the liberal-democratic or liberal-socialist left does not wish to lose support, it must work to foster social bonds based on self-regulation and even self-governance. Dictatorships and authoritarian regimes always arise from social chaos and insecurity