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March 19, 2008

Come scontentare greci e troiani: le elezioni italiane all’estero

Rodrigo Praino

Collegio Centro e Nord America. Due peculiarità, due storie in un certo senso speculari che pongono alcuni interrogativi sui rapporti tra i partiti e gli elettori e tra gli...

March 18, 2008

Television as an open field for pundits

Dom Serafini

Italian Professor’s Baseless Theory on TV and Society Can’t Be Challenged

March 17, 2008

Cultural Philanthropy, A Private Affair

Anthony Julian Tamburri

Education is the only way we can change people’s minds. A concerted conversation (i.e., coming together) on cultural philanthropy among/by Italian Americans is, I would submit,...

March 17, 2008

Of Emperors, Murders and the Ides of March: the Ghosts that Haunt Italy's Elections

Judith Harris
The President of "Democrazia Cristiana" Aldo Moro, kidnapped by the Red Brigades on March 16, 1978, and killed on May 9 the same year.

On the complicated and dark political history shaping Italy's coming elections next month.

March 16, 2008

“Italian Signs, American Streets” as a study of I/A culture through literature (strengths and weaknesses)

Tom Verso
Italian Signs

As the empiricist said to the metaphysician: “Should I believe you or my lying eyes.”

March 15, 2008

Glass Houses (Case di Vetro)

Jerry Krase
Jerry Krase pencil and ink
Looking out the window with one broken pane above.

Casting stones while in glass houses seems to be a favorite pastime of politicians of all races, creeds, genders, and "diss"-abilities. Take for example, Spitzer and Ferraro, not...

March 15, 2008

What Do Pizza, Mario Merola, and the Camorra Have to Do with Ikea?

Laura E. Ruberto

A long-lost relative from Brooklyn finds his way to an Italian kids' movie.

March 13, 2008

Month of Memoir

B. Amore
Jean Feraca

Celebrate International Women’s Month with a powerhouse of writing by Italian American women authors!

March 13, 2008

Out of the archives: Vatican doubts over the Duce

Judith Harris
Left: Pope Pius XII. Right: Mons. Domenico Tardini

New access to archival documents of the Vatican shed evealing light on the relatiuonships between th Catholic Church and Fascism.

March 13, 2008

Want Some Brooshetta with your Fritalian?

George De Stefano

Dunkin' Donuts thinks Americans hate ordering coffee with strange foreign names. And that "latte" is an English word.

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