by John Mancini | Jun 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
In Italian history, June 10, 1940 was a day of infamy, when Italy declared war on Great Britain and France. Eighty-one years ago this month, Mussolini and the Savoy monarchy chained their nation to a Teutonic ideologue whose insanity knew no bounds. What...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jun 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
It isn’t often that a lowly journalist like myself scoops the New York Times, but it happened: On June 4, 2021, covering the famous French Open Tennis Tournament in Paris, New York Times sports correspondent Matthew Futterman filed a story noting something...
by John Mancini | Jun 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today, let’s examine the intramural struggle among our paesani in government. Ancient Romans often staged life and death battles in their arenas. Arena means “sand” in Latin, the stuff they spread on amphitheater floors to soak up the blood. There may be...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Jun 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
American history has caught up with the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, a race war that broke out between outraged white citizens who attacked an armed brigade of Black WWI vets trying to save a Black man from being lynched. But, did you know that one of the chief historians...
by Rosario Iaconis | Jun 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
In challenging her students to craft a Martian constitution that eschews traditional electoral politics, Professor Hélène Landemore is agitating for the best of all possible political worlds (“Designing democracy on Mars can improve how it works on Earth”, Opinion,...
by John Mancini | May 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
As a child, I recall relatives talking about my maternal grandfather’s brother Luigi being killed in the First World War. I never heard any details, but there was mention of his parents in Italy receiving money from the U.S. government for his death. His...
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