Last week, Italy became the first nation to condemn and sentence to prison two of its own secret service chiefs for assisting the CIA in February 2003 in kidnapping suspected Islamic terrorists on Italian soil and deporting them supposedly in ...
Let us pray that the next pope is a black man. Better still, let it be a black African born and bred in the heart of the Dark Continent near the source of one of those massive snake-like rivers. The less contaminated the new pope is by the dominant ...
I never used to believe in miracles before I came to live in Italy, but last week I witnessed the resurrection of a political corpse. It was all thanks to a bizarre potion whose ingredients are a black soccer superstar, a busted red bank mired in ...
Willingly or not, women play a starring role in the death of the West. Women in Europe and America have made one great big fat suicidal error as a result of modern feminism since the movement's inception: They have confused work with freedom. ...
I admire the great French actor Gérard Depardieu. Not only does he annoy the French left, he has now left France. In so doing, he has given me a great idea: to transform myself into a fiscal ghost. My aim in 2013 is to vanish into thin air ...
If it were not for the Apocalypse which is due any day now I would be the owner at last of a large stone farmhouse perched in the gentle foothills of the Apennines and surrounded by soothing vineyards with a spectacular view stretching to the ...
Ah, Italia! Such a great place to get your head around great art and great women, but such a shitty little country. How else to describe a so-called free and democratic country where the police cart off a national newspaper editor to serve a ...
About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "lavoro socialmente utile" (socially useful work). I kept putting it off until three weeks ago when I could put it off no more, and now I ...
The Remembrance Day commemorations in honor of the war dead always prompt even me to think that the Italians" reputation as a nation of cowards on the battlefield is unfair. But the Italians are cowards in another sense: They are afraid to ...
Day after day, Italian newspapers pullulate with deeply disturbing examples of the antics of Italy's judges. But this past week has been a vintage one even by Italian standards. First, a judge in the city of L"Aquila, where in April 2009 an ...
Francesco Schettino, the 52-year-old captain of the cruise liner Costa Concordia, began his pretrial hearing last week in the small Tuscan city of Grosseto. The Costa Concordia capsized on the evening of Friday January 13th after hitting barely ...
They played "The Internationale" at Wednesday's funeral of Eric Hobsbawm, Britain's "greatest historian." No one took offense. Indeed, all felt uplifted. The mourners at the crematorium in Golders Green, London's Jewish heartland, ...
