Always thought that Claude AI was very smart and now I know why. A notice from the district court of California kindly informed me that one of my books was pirated to train it. You’re welcome, @anthropic.com
Francesca Lollobrigida smiles widely while hugging her son. Quote reads: "It's not that easy to combine being a skater and a mom." Attribution reads: Italian speedskater Francesca Lollobrigida, who took time off after the 2022 Beijing Games to have her son. She has won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
From @theathletic.com: In her fourth Olympics, Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida said that she was proud of herself for not giving up and for believing she could have a family and be an Olympic champion. She has won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics. nyti.ms/4ajyEiY
Remigration is word of the year, says @stephenkb.bsky.social in the FT. If you want to see the shape of things to come, check out our @noemamag.com
longread on Denmark, where remigration is now in the political mainstream.
www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
Il compromesso raggiunto a Bruxelles per sostenere l’Ucraina senza toccare gli asset russi conferma che l’Europa è ancora quella che Ivan Krastev e Mark Leonard anni fa chiamarono la potenza erbivora.
Mio editoriale su Il Riformista.
www.ilriformista.it/leuropa-che-...
This is an excellent article by Helle Malmvig and @fabriziotassinari.bsky.social on the "Danish model" on immigration, with clear and detailed explanation of how being tough on newcomers has become a cornerstone of political consensus.
www.noemamag.com/inside-denma...
It shall not be disclosed due to GDPR and decency. But I finished!
Finishing a marathon in front of the Florence cathedral must be the true last remnant of humanism.
“The Danish case is less a model than a warning about what happens to democratic politics when politicians from the center & center-left move to the right to regain or retain power, rather than deliberating, informing & modeling responsibility & respect.”
—Helle Malmvig & Fabrizio Tassinari
What happens to a progressive social democracy when it normalises the worldview of the far right?
My latest longform journalism piece, co-authored with Helle Malmvig, in Noema magazine.
I knew that the FT comments section would provide the most plausible explanation to the 28 point plan for Ukraine
50 years ago today died Pier Paolo Pasolini, hands down Italy’s greatest modern public intellectual. RIP.
The latest fallout of the “negotiations” with Russia should show European leaders that their adulation of Trump’s foreign policy is not delivering.
My latest in Il Riformista this morning.
An informal European council takes place tomorrow in Copenhagen, while Denmark is under an unusual amount of pressure from the west (Trump, Greenland) and from the east (drones). Why?
My column in Il riformista this morning.
The great @nilsgilman.bsky.social of the equally great @berggruen.org published an insightful comment to the Le Monde profile, outlining the broader intellectual implications of what we are doing in Florence. Well worth a read:
open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
Wonderful gift from @lemonde.fr
for such thoughtful profile of our Florence School of Transnational Governance @eui-stg.bsky.social
Always a special feeling to co-author with a philosopher. Over at @projectsyndicate.bsky.social I partner with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social on digital technocracy and future-less autocracies.
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Albania has appointed an AI bot as minister, showing how digital technocracy is hollowing out democracy. My editorial with the great @daniel-innerarity.bsky.social. For Il Riformista this morning.
Sunset jog after the storm in Florence. Beat that.
Last weekend, the Wizard of the Kremlin premiered at the Venice film festival with young Putin played by Jude Law.
I loved the novel but I wonder why we are so captivated by brutal figures and I worry that works like the Wizard help cultivate their myth.
My column in Il Riformista
It was bound to happen sooner or later… my interview on Alexander Stubb’s worldview, diplomacy and on our friendship. In Il Riformista this morning.
www.ilriformista.it/la-sorpresa-...
Love this article...
Europe without a contrast is disparate, a family constantly at each other’s throats, but with Trump to reflect on, it realizes what bonds it and even in the aftermath of Putin’s best laid Brexit, even the UK speaks as one with its brothers and sisters.
Irrespective of its outcome, the Washington summit showed that Europe still needs the “Other” to shape its identity. My (debut) take in The Guardian.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is becoming the greatest unifier of Europe since the end of the cold war | Fabrizio Tassinari
Good to see a piece about the EUI in The Economist. But this is a hatched job, with little resemblance to reality. Charlemagne is usually excellent, so this is odd. Can only think that @spignal.bsky.social talked to people who don't really know what's going on.
www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
EU top court toughens migration rules on ‘safe countries’ https://on.ft.com/44XJvw7
Shopping when in Rome…
Italy just cancelled a concert by conductor and Putin ally Valery Gergiev. Yet last year alone, it issued over 150.000 visas to Russian tourists.
This morning for Il Riformista on the paradox of Italy’s attitudes toward Russia.
I am neither a literary critic nor a fortune teller, but a couple of months ago I reviewed for my newspaper the novel that yesterday won Italy’s most important literary award, the Strega prize. Well worth reading (the novel).
www.ilriformista.it/andrea-bajan...
The Italian government decided to issue 500,000 permits for migrant workers for the period 2026–2028.
This is slightly higher than 450,000 in the current period and significantly higher than the annual ≈70,000 permits per year under previous governments.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6550...
An Onion front page with the headline: Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Who will stand up for our democracy? This question, fraught in even the most peaceful times, has only grown more pressing as our country approaches its 250th anniversary. Each passing day brings growing assaults on essential liberties like freedom of speech and due process. Meanwhile, our delicately assembled legal system faces a constant barrage of threats. Even as this issue reaches publication, the U.S. military has been deployed against peaceful protesters. We teeter on the brink of collapse into an authoritarian state. That is why, today, The Onion calls upon our lawmakers to sit back and do absolutely nothing. Members of Congress, now more than ever, our nation desperately needs your cowardice. Our republic is a birthright, an exceedingly rare treasure passed down from generation to generation of Americans. It was gained through hard years of bloody resistance and can too easily be lost. Our Founding Fathers, in their abundant wisdom, understood that all it would take was men and women of little courage sitting in the corridors of power and taking zero action as this precious inheritance was stripped away—and that is where we have finally arrived. Now is not the time for bravery or valor! This is the time for protecting your own hide and lining your pocket. Now is not the time for listening to your idiotic constituents drone on about what’s happening to their precious democracy. This is the time for getting down on all fours and grov- eling. Now is not the time to say, “Enough is enough,” and have the tough conversations about resisting the ongoing assaults on American liberty. This is the time to let the wave of apathy and indifference roll over you as you think about getting a really nice renovation to your house in Kalorama. But what can I, one coward, do alone? you might ask.
Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state.
That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress:
Sit back and do absolutely nothing.
