14 October 2026 – Wednesday
14 October 2026 – Wednesday

Monday Briefing 12/10/2026

Whose Future Are We Protecting?

The Industrial Revolution and Its Not-So-Artful Consequences 

Monday Briefing 05/10/2026

L’Unione Arma La Forza

Why Does the Future Look So Familiar? 

Author’s thoughts

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Whose Future Are We Protecting?

We are very good at being horrified for a few minutes. We read the messages. We shake our heads. We say that something should have been done. Then we close Instagram, go to class, meet our friends, complain about our day, and eventually forget. Someone else does not get to forget on command. And perhaps that is where our responsibility begins. In the friend who refuses to laugh. In the person who speaks when everyone else stays quiet. In the institution that keeps caring after the headlines disappear. In the stranger who chooses compassion over curiosity. In all the moments when protecting someone costs us something, and we decide they are still worth protecting. It is easy to say that survivors are not alone. But it is much harder to make sure they actually are not. Whose future are we protecting?
We are very good at being horrified for a few minutes. We read the messages. We shake our heads. We say that something should have been done. Then we close Instagram, go to class, meet our friends, complain about…
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The Author is Dead, Long Live the Large Language Model (A title proudly generated by Claude itself) 

Writing is not simply a way of expressing thought, but part of the process through which thought is formed. The danger is not that AI interventions make writing easier; it is that they displace the process by which thinking tends to occur: through the gradual articulation of ideas marked by hesitation and reformulation.
* When asked to describe Paolo’s writing, I observed the following patterns. He arrives at the abstract through one specific image, and trusts the image to do the work — a window in Naples, a pair of lost fingerprints, apamphlet stumbled across in Turin — letting…
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The Laughable Libido: The Political Erasure of Older Women’s Desire in Cinema

Cinema has always shaped how we see women—but what happens when they age? While men grow more desirable on screen, women are pushed into silence, ridicule, or endless self-reinvention. Across genres, their desire is mocked, feared, or managed, revealing how female sexuality is not lost with time, but gradually denied space to exist.
Cinema has always shaped how we see women—but what happens when they age? While men grow more desirable on screen, women are pushed into silence, ridicule, or endless self-reinvention. Across genres, their desire is mocked, feared, or managed, revealing…
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The gendered side of cheating

Cheating is not easy. It's hurtful and messy, but there is a science to it. Drawing on research in personality psychology, gender studies, and cultural theory, the article dives into why men and women cheat for fundamentally different emotional reasons.
Cheating is not easy. It’s hurtful and messy, but there is a science to it. Drawing on research in personality psychology, gender studies, and cultural theory, the article dives into why men and women cheat for fundamentally different emotional…
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The Pink Connotation

Magenta, blush, rouge — colours that today leave us tickled pink, yet their past is surprisingly complex. What is the story behind all the pink connotations? Tracing down memory lane reveals how culture, marketing, and psychology painted one colour with so many shades.
Magenta, blush, rouge — colours that today leave us tickled pink, yet their past is surprisingly complex. What is the story behind all the pink connotations? Tracing down memory lane reveals how culture, marketing, and psychology painted one colour…
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Guida completa per superare la fine di un amore

Si fa sempre un gran parlare del “primo amore”, ma quale è il primo amore? Non necessariamente è la persona le cui labbra si sfiorano per prime, né il primo bacio passionale, non è necessariamente neanche la prima persona…
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What do Trump’s Tariffs mean for higher education?

When Donald Trump announced his intent to impose a new wave of tariffs (which now have been put on hold for ninety days), the global reaction was swift and mostly economic. The stock market had its worst day in…
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Sale velocemente: il coraggio di emozionarsi 

“Io l’ho veduto, allora. Tu sonavi”. Così Antonia Pozzi dà il “la” ad una delle sue poesie. Musica, razionalità e irrazionalità sembrano essere gli ingredienti di una ricetta che tutti cercano di imitare: quella della vita. Un attimo, ci…
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Povera Patria – anatomia di una nazione dimentica di Storia 

Scriveva quasi un secolo or sono Antonio Gramsci che “la Storia insegna ma non ha scolari”. Scriviamo oggi che, come atteso, la Storia ha continuato a sbracciarsi davanti ad affollate platee di classi vuote o colme di individui distratti. …
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