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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,...

Berlusconi: Cheering from the Sidelines

Judith Harris

The three reasons that let the former Italian Premier appear in good shape

Saviano’s Eyes

Robert Viscusi

Roberto Saviano has the eyes of a prophet who has seen Italy plain. Gramsci in jail, Dante in hell. This is the Italy where Popes die mysteriously and there are secret cities...

Characters Such as Corleone by Puzo have not Helped the Image

Joseph Sciame

The Italian-American hard work and dedication to the fabric of our American society is oftentimes wiped out by such characters and images, whether on TV, news media or film

The Italian American Community’s War on Negative Stereotypes: a Failure

Stanislao Pugliese

I am honored to participate in this very important dialogue with my distinguished colleagues, who have already weighed in with profound and even provocative observations. While...

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