Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World By Richard Cockett (Yale University Press, 464 pages, $35) A few years ago, I read a very interesting book by Arthur Herman entitled How the Scots Invented the Modern World….
For someone who campaigned and was largely elected on the basis of putting an end to the illegal arrival of migrant boats on Italian shores, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has performed dismally for the past twelve months. So far in…
Wandering through Life: A Memoir By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press, 193 pages, $26) When a writer charms, instructs, amuses, or simply mightily entertains us, it’s natural enough to wish to know more about the creator behind the creation. What…
Since her election last year, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been under fire from the Left for what it deems her “far right” positions on traditional family values — namely, that she has them. So, it is no surprise…
“I do hug and kiss people casually,” pleaded Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August 2021 amid allegations of sexual harassment. “I have done it all my life.” Better known around Albany as the Kissing Bandit, the former luv gov curiously pinned his…
Since 2004, Italy has banned the buying and selling of children — surrogacy — within the nation’s borders. Now, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is working to prevent Italians from buying and selling children outside of the country. According to the…
With annual inflation at only 3 percent in June, and second quarter GDP growing at 2.4 percent, it looks like a return to normalcy. With the S&P Index up over 19 percent year to date, and the NASDAQ Composite Index…
Some cities seem to burst with saints. Home to well-known twentieth century saints like St. Faustina Kowalska, and St. Maximilian Kolbe, and St. John Paul II — as well as older saints less familiar to Americans, like St. Stanislaw and…
“Miss Italy Beauty Pageant Bans Biological Males From Competition,” states the headline at Breitbart. I was, of course, pleased to see this. I was also both pleased and amused by the comments from the Italian woman in charge of the…
