Power
Globalism: naming an enemy, never defining it
A word that spans radical right and anti-capitalist left alike, without ever quite defining itself. The genealogy of "globalism," from 1940s American isolationism to today's conspiracy theories.
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Power
The Extreme at the Center. Tucker Carlson and the End of American Moderation
Ninety days before the midterms, Tucker Carlson's break with Trump reveals something larger than a personal rupture: American politics, viewed through Sartori's lens, has lost its center of gravity
Geopolitics
Living in Europe at twenty-three
A personal essay on what it means to feel European today, written from three years spent studying between London, Madrid and Paris, and what that distance revealed about home, identity and where Italy fits into it all.
Geoeconomics
The Sun Isn't Enough
Solar produced a quarter of Europe's electricity in June, a historic record. But behind the aggregate figure lie an Italy left behind, national grids that don't talk to each other, and a renewables race that was also born as a weapon against Russian energy blackmail.
Geopolitics
Compete or Disappear (III): A Market or a State
In the second half of the book Draghi stops diagnosing and asks European politics to choose: remain a large regulated market, or finally become a state
Geopolitics
The European Risorgimento: why Italy's unification is the mirror of today's Europe
In 1861 seven states with seven currencies, seven armies and seven fiscal systems became one nation. It was painful, it left wounds that exist to this day. But it worked. And the process that led to Italian unification resembles, more than one might think, what Europe has yet to complete.
Geopolitics
Compete or Disappear (II): the technology trap
Draghi does not describe a Europe in difficulty. He describes a Europe with too many divergent directions, none of which leads anywhere useful. The technological gap with the United States is not inevitable: it is the result of the wrong choices, repeated for twenty years.
Geopolitcs
Compete or Disappear (I): the diagnosis
Draghi certifies the death of the model on which Europe built its prosperity for thirty years. Cheap Russian energy, Chinese markets, American military protection: all three pillars have collapsed. And the next American technological leap risks turning a historical gap into a permanent one.
Geopolitics
The Price of Europe
There is a negotiation underway in Brussels that will decide what Europe looks like for the next seven years. It receives little attention, which tells me a great deal about where we stand.
Geopolitics
The Summit Europe Does Not Know It Is Having
Europe's five largest military powers are in Berlin today. Rutte is on video from Washington, with Trump. Five countries trying to speak with one voice ahead of Ankara, without the institutions to back it up.
Geopolitics
The Germany We Never Wanted
Germany's rearmament is a budget figure, not an alarmist projection. But Europe has yet to decide whether it wants to contain it within a common framework or let the continent's largest industrial power rearm alone
Geopolitics
Two Wests, One Word
Trump told Italian television that Meloni had begged him for a photograph at the G7. Hegseth called Europe's leaders shameful. This is not a diplomatic crisis. It is a war over what the word "West" still means.