Modus in english
What it means to be black
What it means to be black. “Is race distinction even necessary?” and should it be replaced by a distinction based ...
Black Lives Matter, Italian Style
Abject slavery tacitly promoted by the government and protected by the military who practiced it themselves on girls who were ...
Liberalism in the third millennium
Liberal societies at the dawn of the third millennium are powerless witnesses to both increased poverty and growing insecurity and, ...
Pavia, soup and battle
We have "Lapalissian", a soup and "everything's lost" thanks to the battle of Pavia, lasting longer than the corpses that ...
The ring of fire
A bleak scenario in which, with few exceptions, people live in difficult and desperate conditions.
All roads lead to Dallas
In the warm morning of November 22, 1963, as J.F.Kennedy was climbing down the steps of the presidential aircraft that ...
Memories of a young migrant
Today, seventy years ago, when I was just over nine years old, I left my hometown to go to Genoa. ...
Nobel comes, Nobel goes
Yesterday I picked up an old book published by “Lato Side Editions” in 1980, Bob Dylan – All ...
Wakan Tanka (The Great Spirit)
Those of you, who like me, lived their childhood in the late ’50s and ’60s will remember that ...
Joshua Slocum’s Vandée
On April 24, 1895, at dusk, the Spray, a sloop a little over 11 feet long, later turned into ...
Hannibal’s journey
Hannibal presented himself as the one to impose Hellenism on the world, now in danger of exhaustion; the Punic War ...
Nelson, natural born predator
Nelson had been an ordinary sailor, a small man and a formidable warrior, and the day that he died marked ...
Stolpersteine: when stumbling can be good
“A person is only forgotten when his or her name is forgotten.” Starting from this maxim from the Talmud, ...
Call them feelings
Perfection may not always go hand in hand with the emotion that an artistic performance can give.
Crossroads: the devil’s music
It’s nighttime. Robert has just finished playing in the most crowded place in Hazlehurts. In one hand his ...
Labyrinths
Perhaps it's true that the theater is life, but what sense can a scene have if it is repeated hundreds ...
Coup de théâtre
The "political actor", in direct contact with his audience (supporters, "people"), without any intermediary, performs ... acts.
The discussion (modus in rebus)
Premise It may happen that, while you’re eating ice cream, or waiting to finally fall asleep, or even ...
Time Travel
When built it was considered among the boldest works of engineering ever made, while now it makes us smile knowing ...
Ulysses: the hero that sailed the baltic
Personal reflections on Felice Vinci’s findings The first time I heard of him (I wish I had much earlier) ...
Gerda Taro; the revolutionary photojournalist
On July 26, 1937, at age 26, newspaper correspondent Gerda Taro died in war torn Spain, a woman that can ...
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