News - 31 Dicembre 2020 Democracy and Executive Power: US and Italy Through the Lens of the Pandemic A different approach to executive power, looking at the US Constitution vs. the Italian Dpcm. The current value of the Lincoln Project.
News - 6 Luglio 2020 Trump’s 4th of July Speech Strategy: Demonize Your Opposition to Bolster Polls With his attempted re-appropriation of American values and American history, Trump’s Fourth of July speech can be seen as a dangerous embrace of fascist rhetoric. By identifying Trump’s supporters as “American” and his critics as “liars,” “violent mobs,” “totalitarians” the speech effectively brands not just political opponents, but any critically-thinking individual (such as teachers), who does not share his opinions, as un-American, unpatriotic, and, ultimately, “de facto” enemy of the state.
News - 1 Giugno 2020 America Burns? Long Live America, Its Cyclical History Remains in Motion Shattered windows and stores looted even in New York? These acts of violence of a small group of people certainly don’t represent the entire protest movement, but we prefer to reserve most of our anger and outrage for George Floyd’s final words, “I can’t breathe, Mama help me!”: it is the echo of his final words that should make us nervous, not the sounds of shattered windows.
News - 7 Gennaio 2020 2020: Dems’ Death Wish a Perfect Storm for Trump’s Reelection In the coming weeks and months, political scenarios abound that may hurt the Democrats and favor Trump and the Republicans. Trump may also profit from a Democratic Death Wish. Above all, the wish is manifest in too many Democratic potential candidates... Trump has also used the “Bully Pulpit” to his advantage. He desires a second term so much that to get it he may plunge the United States into another hopeless war—against North Korea or now much more immediately, against Iran.
Arts - 15 Giugno 2019 Leonard Cohen’s Prophecy: Democracy is Leaving the USA And what are we doing as a nation to abort this home-spun tragedy? Mandates have been set by a Council of Conservative Citizens passing legislation eliminating our basic rights….
News - 17 Febbraio 2019 Gone with the Truth: The End of Politics in Trump’s America Our political philosophies, regardless of party, have become untethered from ethics and morality and supplanted by political expediency and rage. It is truly ironic that a man widely considered to be inarticulate, uninformed and perhaps downright unintelligent has coined the concept of “fake news.”
News - 6 Luglio 2018 Great Again? The United States Between Reckless Ambitions and Relative Decline This article focuses on one of the major deficits of American power: the lack of historical depth, that is, the idea that a solution that worked within a specific historical context can be reapplied in any other circumstance and produce the same outcomes. The relative decline of the country (that is, its growth rate being inferior to that of the rest of the world) is causing an entire series of policies adopted in the past to be no longer feasible and poses, if anything, the necessity to make America – in its ambitions, in its spending, in its view of the world – “smaller” than before
People - 17 Giugno 2018 RFK and the “Mysterious” End of Kennedy’s Populism Fifty years ago, on an important night for the Democratic primaries, candidate Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the former President, JFK, died in Los Angeles. RFK understood right away that, more than Communism, it was the Mafia and its relationship with the establishment that was the enemy within that had to be examined. And if he and his brother had not been killed, perhaps today we would give new meaning to the word “populism”
News - 10 Gennaio 2018 Trump’s Political Durability, Oprah and Other Democratic Pipe Dreams! Why might Donald Trump be around longer than anyone prefers? Because of democrats wishful thinking - like "Oprah for President 2020" - favors the built-in advantages Trump is so clever to exploit. The powerful and disquieting reasons why Trump is now the American president, and why he might well endure, are worth examination.