Recent news and research on lockdowns has reminded me of my personal conversations and a few small articles that I wrote last year. …

River of tears, river of light — My youth was spent running down the long straight roads of the Oregon plains. One mile straight; turn right; one mile and a half straight, turn right; two miles with a few lazy turns, turn right; one mile straight home. Checkerboard theme, with variations. I ran to the beat of…

Three Ukrainians sat around my table last Friday: a grandmother, a mother, and a two-year old child. We were celebrating. The little group of refugees had travelled across Ukraine from Zaporizhzhya, where a huge nuclear power plant was the location of some heavy fighting in the early days of the…

Italy is famous for the excellence of its local products. It is renowned for wines that express the specificities of its territories, whose area sometimes covers only a few acres, and for microclimates that permit the production of widely different cured meats. Italy is famous for styles of painting and…

Here we are, all of us, almost two years on, still having to debate what appears to each of us to be incontrovertible. I suspect that most people made up their minds early on, and continue to pay attention only to the articles and news anchors who support their position…

Italy has been my home for most of the last twenty years. When I arrived in May of 2000, I knew very little about the country, and recall saying to a classmate that there weren’t really any great Italian writers, unlike the French, who had dozens… I will never forget…

Green Pass Affronto e contesto alcuni dei principi su cui si basa l’esistenza della tessera verde: Le inoculazioni disponibili non fermano la trasmissione del virus. Oggi, ciò è clamorosamente evidente visto l’incremento recente di casi di positività e malattia in una popolazione già greenpassata e inoculata sopro l’80%. Altri stati vedono risultati…