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A Wise Guy in Paradise

Donna Chirico

Netflix launches "Lilyhammer," a series made for Norwegian television. In it you'll find almost every known stereotype of Italian/American culture that you can imagine.

Guy de Maupassant’s “SICILY” – Sicilian Mosaics and Guido Education

Tom Verso

If ever it comes to pass, that an American university or college develops a Patria Meridionale curriculum, dedicated to educating the near 17 million Americans of southern-Italian...

Wolfgang Achtner? Chi era costui?

Silvia Giagnoni

Politically independent journalist Wolfgang Achtner is fighting for a change in RAI. And for Italy’s and his personal (Arab) spring, he says. Courtesy of social media.

America Loves Monti—and Just Maybe, So Does Italy

Judith Harris

A subtle and sober intellectual economist in a discreet blue suit, the new "emergency premier" marks a departure from the recent Italian past. For one, he is hailed and respected...

Mr. Monti Takes a Verbal Tumble

Judith Harris

Italy’s suave emergency premier Mario Monti has floated on a wave of extraordinary popularity until last week, when a wisecrack he made about the labor market upstaged even the...

"Italian Journalists—Burn Your Draft Card!" Do-It-Yourself Liberalization

Douglas Grant Mine

"The Ordine dei Giornalisti (ODG) is a corporation that regulates Italy’s journalism by imposing membership on anyone who wants to work in the field as a professional. No other...

Breaking the Silence, Yet Again

Letizia Airos



Reflections on indifference and forgetfulness between musical notes as the names of families deported to Auschwitz are read on Park Avenue. Against the ever-present risk of...

Essay on Survival and Historical Truth

Jasha M. Levi

EDITORS' NOTE: Mr. Jasha M. Levi, a Yugoslav Jewish antifascist in the 1930s and a fighter against dictatorships and genocides for all his life, fled the Nazis and his native...

We Didn’t Come Over on the Mayflower!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

The ignorance of our history has cast some of our “paesani” into the hinterlands of bigotry and prejudice, and thus led them to their coincidental and shameful consequences of...

Concordia-Titanic-Venice. Soul-Searching in a Shipwreck

Judith Harris

She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...

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