Society
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A trip to Georgia
Tbilisi – Georgia – sits quietly on a corner of the Caucasus, not Europe anymore, not…
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Existenzminimum in Hampstead
There was a time when Modernism‘s programmatic fracture with exhausted ways of building, dwelling, thinking was celebrated…
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Apostasy
A stuffy atmosphere pervades Kingdom Hall, the suburban assembly point for the small community of Jehovah…
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Ross: The Industries of the Future
The importance of a book like “The industries of the future”1 by Alec Ross can hardly…
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Su un treno italiano
Come si era potuti arrivare a tanto? pensavo mentre guardavo la ragazza. Sui trent’anni, rossa di…
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Art in Fractured Times
In Madrid, at the Reina Sofia Museum of Contemporary Art, a special exhibition charts this year…
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Pankaj: Age of Anger
In 1862, Dostoevsky visited London for the World Exhibition. The Crystal Palace transfixed his mind. He…
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Una nota di Pier Paolo Pasolini
Apparsa sul Il Reporter del 19 gennaio 1960, col titolo “La comicità di Sordi, gli stranieri non…
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On Chomsky and Hobsbawm (cont’ned)
Upon visiting the splendid mosaics in Villa Romana del Casale (Piazza Armerina), one is reminded very clearly of…
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Practical reason as sorcery (ii): development economics
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in the towering figure of Josif…