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...

Something Fishy This Way Comes

What got lost in the Will Smith/Chris Rock smack-down at the Oscar ceremony is the “surprise” win for CODA, an indie movie about a deaf American fishing family on the East Coast (Gloucester, MA). Actually, indie in this sense only means they had to finance...

Those Other Explorers

Our Almanac reminds us that Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, and Verrazzano weren’t the only Italians this nation ought to be thankful for. On April 9th, 1682 Enrico Tonti and Frenchman Robert La Salle arrived at the Gulf of Mexico after traversing waterways from the Great...

Hi-Octane Minorities

A London-based research outfit called YouGov matches perceptions to actual stats.  For example, panels of volunteers surveyed in the United States think that Blacks are 41% of the U.S population when the Census says they are only 12%.  The reason for the...