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My cover/live versions of some of the ballads that shaped the country's ambiguous history My personal (in progress) contribution and performance to 250 years of American popular culture, songs 'that shaped us', written and/or performed b...

Mentre il gap tra musica e letteratura è oggi ormai superato, rimane quello della lingua. Ma il terzo incomodo offre una splendida opportunità per la didattica: quella di usare le canzoni d’autore come parte dello studio della lingua.

LISTEN TO THE ARTICLE There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for...

Looking forward to the American elections, part 1. The subtitle of my book about Berlusconi’s Italy reads The all-Italian story of the man who gave us Trump. In the book I write that “Trump may be more powerful, and more dangerous, than ...

Italian football: mirror of a society where no one pays Italian football is the mirror of our society: it means organized crime connections, both at top management level or at mafia and camorra rank; it means corruption, in match fixing,...

Ho letto sul Fatto Quotidiano del 17 agosto 2021 il bell’articolo di Selvaggia Lucarelli intitolato Noto, bellezza&monnezza. Ma se lo denunci t’insultano che descrive la sua vacanza da incubo in quella parte della Sicilia. Andando in...

Twenty-eight years later: Falcone and Borsellino are victims of Totò Riina's 'negotiating by bomb' strategy. Victims and martyrs indeed, and of course heroes. Nevertheless, I always have a bitter taste in my mouth every year at the celeb...

You’ll see no Rome, Florence, Venice or Taormina in this diary. Instead, I’ll take you to small unknown places of rare beauty often harbouring next to territorial or industrial diseases, ‘ugliness’ of various kind that makes Italy the cr...

Dear British Leavers and Tories, I humbly remind you that the English Empire collapsed one century ago and so your attitude of superiority which fuels Brexit is quite pathetic today: I remember that the day of the opening of the Chunnel ...

Dire addio alla scuola dopo 40 anni di insegnamento. "Lo fa, tra i tanti anche il Prof. Vittorio Vandelli, autore della Saga del prof. Bingo, una serie di libri satirici sulla scuola. La storia degli ultimi 40 anni del sistema istru...