Lauded and Vilified

Appropriate for Mother’s Day is the old quip, “Well, at least your mother loves you!”  That might be the way Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito rationalized his overnight descent into Hell last week when his draft opinion on abortion rights was outed by some...

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Season Two of CNN’s “Searching for Italy” series with Stanley Tucci began on Sunday, May 1st. The show was scheduled two months earlier but was understandably interrupted by the tragic war in Ukraine. No matter. This only postponed the inevitable:...

One with Nature

In our pantheon of heroes, Americans of Italian stock can look back some 3,000 years to a people who struggled to reconcile human existence with Nature.  That struggle encompassed the many goals of revealing the secrets Nature, of controlling Nature, and of...

The Culture War

President Eisenhower, a former general, warned us about the Military-Industrial Complex.  But, the last few years has given us another danger: the Corporate-Woke Complex – a multilateral movement to undermine democracy and subvert Western culture. Standing in...

Italy’s Russian Connection

After getting boos – along with Germany – in late February for balking against harsh sanctions against Russia via its invasion of Ukraine, Italy has more than come around. The Ukrainians who have already lived and worked there since the mid-2000s, mostly domestic...

A Roman Easter

In Issue X (1990) of The Italic Way, we explored the Italic connections in the Bible.  In particular how ancient Italians, as Roman officials, were involved in the birth of Christianity. We are all familiar with Emperor Caesar Augustus calling for a census and...