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Keep Calm And Don’t Fear The Red Dragon
The relationship between China and the United States is not really that different from the relationship between Athens and Sparta before the Peloponnesian War. […]
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How Italy’s centre-right parties are trying to win over Italy
In last few months the centre-right alliance has been trying to convince Italians of their credibility and capability, although the thread between them is really thin. […]
Renaissance man: glowing genius in an age of darkness
Leonardo Da Vinci was born in Vinci, approximately 30 km away from Florence, on April 15, 1452. His father, Piero, a lawyer, came from a family with […]
Brexit is the new black
Brexit’s topic never lets anyone down. After almost one year and a half, everyone keeps speaking about it, but no solution has been found yet. On […]
Cleon of Athens and Trumpism before Trump
MAGA wasn’t Trump’s invention. MAGA was MAGA before Trump was Trump. MAGA, in its various declinations, has been with us since the first democracy to […]
(Not) Welcome Back, Voodoo Economics
On September 27th, the Big Six (Paul Ryan, Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn, Kevin Brady, Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch) unveiled their proposal for a tax reform. […]
Fifty Shades of Gracchi
History tends to repeat itself. Never exactly in the same way, as circumstances change but mankind stays the same. Hence, the same needs and desires […]
What the Future of technology holds
In the last few years the perennial debate about technological progress has gone beyond “generic technology”, focusing on robotics and artificial intelligence and their potential […]
The anthropology behind House of Cards season 5
Season 5 of House of Cards will be available on Netflix on May 30th. At last. Because this is one hell of a TV series, arguably the […]
Renewable energy, the only way not to wreck our planet
A solid fog lingers on public debates over present and future of “renewable energy”, a discussion that is usually approached by both sides of the aisle […]