Native American Dignity, Italian Style

After decades of Hollywood movies depicting Native Americans as red savages, along came Dances with Wolves, a cinematic game-changer. Whatever its faults — New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael mocked actor-director Kevin Costner with the mock-Indian name ‘Plays With A...

Road to Nowhere?

Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis seems to be stuck in a political quagmire.  His message accentuating his cultural battles with the Woke and Disney have mobilized the Left and put him on the defensive.  Worse, Donald Trump is still out-polling him despite...

Still Scoring

Admiral Lisa Franchetti The U.S. Navy appears to be the source of many Italian American firsts.  Newly nominated for Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) is Admiral Lisa Franchetti. If Senate-approved, she will be the first female CNO and the first female on the Joint...

Super Mario? How About Super Dario?

Immigration has become such a hot-button issue in America that one forgets the Italian connections to it, both then and now. By then, I mean the so-called “Great Wave” of Italian immigrants between 1880 -1920, though Italians had already been here in the...

Keeping the Lid On

Back in 2020 I wrote of the execution-style murders of Paul and Lina Marino in a Delaware cemetery by a Black gunman.  Early reports indicated that the murderer was dressed in black, with a rifle, and waited in ambush for the couple; that he was motivated to take...