The last of Italy’s untouchables: Taxi drivers are corrupting Italy - UnHerd unherd.com/2024/04/taxi-d…

SCOTUS expert Nina Totenberg says liberal and conservative legal scholars have told her there’s no way that the Supreme Court will buy Trump’s immunity argument when it decided to take up the case. But after Monday’s Colorado ruling, she’s starting to wonder if that’s really…

Very sad day

Linda Wertheimer retirement news : NPR Extra : NPR npr.org/sections/npr-e…

Liliana Segre, 93 years old, Auschwitz survivor, raises her voice in opposition to resurgent, repugnant authoritarianism nytimes.com/2024/01/29/wor…

C’è un’altra grande liberaldemocrazia, in Europa, che considera la destra meloniana un pericolo per i valori dell’Unione. Purtroppo non è la nostra.

Pope Francis thanks #Vatican journalists for their work covering his papacy, and highlights specifically efforts to uncover scandals in the global #Catholic Church, in a first of its kind meeting with Vatican journalists’ union now.

You may have wondered where I've been. I had emergency back surgery in mid Dec., followed by 4 wks in rehab literally hoisted by harnesses, learning to walk again & gaining my strength back. I'm home now & expect to be back at SCOTUS in the very early spring. I've missed you too!

Meloni urged to ban neofascist groups after crowds filmed saluting in Rome | Italy | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

This pro-Fascist rally took place in Rome yesterday

Roma, Italia, 2024.
Vergogna di Stato. #AccaLarentia

Italy’s first female prime minister picked as “man of the year” by right wing newspaper

I had the honor of speaking about my father, scholar of Russian and comparative literature, political and cultural militant, at an extraordinary 2-day conference on 60th anniversary of his death

Cultura, a Biblioteca Nazionale Roma convegno su Renato Poggioli agenziacult.it/cultura/cultur…

Please join me in Rome December 4-5 for an international conference on my father, scholar of Russian and comparative literature and polyglot translator. His literary research ranged from the pastoral and tragedy to utopia, decadence and the avant garde

”The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of ​​Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back.

He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play…

Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/5b3c61…

Some media news: Brian Stelter is making his return to CNN tonight for the first time since he was ousted by Chris Licht.

He’ll be on Kaitlan Collins’s prime time show to discuss “Network of Lies,” his new book about Fox News.

You can’t make this stuff up