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curated by Antonio Calabrò

Industry at its finest gives rise to culture,
forging original combinations of value and values, profitability and social relations

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Milan’s vibrancy and the triumphs of design. Gio Ponti’s wisdom comes to the fore...

‘In construction, it's not concrete, it's not wood, it's not stone, it's not steel, it's not glass that's the most resilient element. The most resilient material in construction is art.’ ...

The benefits of the special law for Milan and the powers required by the...

A special law for Milan. The debate has resurfaced just as Parliament is discussing the special law for Rome as the capital, which would provide the city with the necessary ...

Miracle in Milan: living in a tiny 13-square-metre flat

Miracle in Milan: attempting life in a 13-square-metre micro-flat in an old council block dating from 1881. It has been renovated, but only just. It has its own bathroom, which ...

War paves the way for recession, as well as for destruction, suffering and death

War benefits few. Arms dealers and manufacturers, major financial speculators in commodities (oil, for instance), and those who raze entire cities (Gaza, for example) only to rebuild them. With a ...

The world saved by kids and the return of political passion

‘I was learning so many things while I taught. For instance, that others' problems are like mine. To come out of them together is good politics. To come out alone ...

The limitations of Milan, a city of singles and the ‘lonely crowd’

In 1950, David Riesman, one of America’s leading sociologists, wrote ‘The Lonely Crowd’. Within just a few years, the book had become essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the ...

Cities whose shop lights are going dark are poorer and more rundown. The glitz...

Forget about the liveliness of city centres and new neighbourhoods. The current economic crisis has another very striking aspect that has a profound impact on both the quality of urban ...

Now comes the season of ‘grandparents with suitcases’, following their children and grandchildren to...

‘Voting with your feet’, they call it, when they mean you are choosing a place to live and work that offers better conditions, lower taxes, and a guaranteed better quality ...

The closure of a bookstore is an open wound, but the important thing is...

When a bookshop closes, especially an old bookshop, there is a wound in the civic body of a city. One less place where you can become familiar with a book. ...

The high-quality information game revived by the veteran Buffett

‘That noise! What's that racket?’ ‘That's the press, baby, the press. And there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing.’ This is the final scene from the film ‘Deadline’, which ...

17 February 2026

From neo-feudal power to servitude, this is the dark soul of unacceptable capitalism

‘Feudal Capitalism’ is the working title of the new book by Roberto Seghetti, a seasoned economic journalist (Agi, Panorama, Paese Sera, etc.), which recounts how liberalism and technocracy have reversed ...

11 February 2026

Reactions in Europe: from the Mercosur and India agreements to Draghi’s proposal for ‘pragmatic...

‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters’. This quote by Antonio Gramsci, taken from the Prison Notebooks, is ...

09 February 2026

The 50,000 words you need to know to limit the risks of Artificial Intelligence

‘All the uses of words to everyone... not because everyone should be an artist but because no one should be a slave.’ This quote by Gianni Rodari, taken from ‘The ...

30 January 2026

Europe has a power that it could use more effectively against the US and...

‘In the end three things remained/The certainty that we are beginning.../The certainty that it is necessary to keep on going.../The certainty that we may be interrupted/before we finish.../Let us transform ...

23 January 2026

Europe’s role: attracting talent from around the world for research, innovation, technology and training

At a time of radical and dramatic crisis in Europe, when even its former traditional allies are reaffirming its irrelevance through sarcasm and, at times, contempt, we must seek to ...