On Friday, October 4, 2024, the prestigious headquarters of the Consulate General of Italy in New York hosted the presentation of the third print issue of Il Newyorkese, the leading newspaper for the Italian community in the Big Apple. The […]
Gene Simmons of KISS has long argued that rock died once we entered the age of the web, and this theory is expanded upon by the Italian author Giancarlo Caracciolo. In 1981, when MTV first aired a music video in
Have you ever wondered how the results of scientific research get written up, published, disseminated and, in some cases, eventually accepted as conventional wisdom? How do those obscure academic articles in hard-to-remember journals contribute to our everyday understanding of the
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In his 1993 book Pleasant the Scholar’s Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State, Maurice Goldring emphasised the role of intellectuals in shaping Irish cultural nationalism. He distinguished between revolts and revolutions. Without some articulation of ideas
John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek published their landmark works over 75 years ago, so why do their ideas still generate such debate today? Kritika & Kontext devotes a special issue to a re-evaluation of these two 20th-century behemoths
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In the final episode of Knowledgeable Youth, the Ukrainian students of the Free People Educational Hub in Vienna reflect on what kind of future they envision for themselves and the world. Their conversation is inspired by the article “Children of
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Greta Thunberg accused participants of the 2023 World Economic Forum with ‘fuelling the destruction of the planet’. G. Thunberg, interview outside World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, 19 January 2023, https://www.commondreams.org/news/davos-greta-thunberg She argued that the irresponsibility of the
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New York – IlNewyorkese: The event for the presentation of Alessandro Benetton’s book “My Trajectory” at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York has just concluded, offering the audience an evening full of emotions and reflections. Alessandro Benetton, a well-known
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