5 July 2026 – Sunday
5 July 2026 – Sunday

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Lions’ Legends: Editorial

Shaping History Through Art: How Museums Define the Past

L’arte come funzione pubblica: perché il bello è un bene comune

The Author is Dead, Long Live the Large Language Model (A title proudly generated by Claude itself) 

Private credit sotto pressione: sempre meno “private” e sempre meno “credit”? 

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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 Idiot

What beauty saves the world? In Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, this question quietly turns into another: how do we live with so much suffering? Prince Myshkin accepts it. He holds on to a fragile kind of beauty made of compassion and innocence, an infinite love that endures even when it can’t fix anything. Ippolít Teréntyev doesn’t accept it. He can’t stand the tragicness of human condition, and rebels against it, slowly relinquishing what makes him human. Dostoevsky leaves the question open: can beauty carry us through the pain of existing, or are we condemned to relive it every day of our lives?
I wrote this piece to shine a light on the inner darkness of the human mind. Too many people choose to never speak about their memories, their feelings and their troubles out of fear of being judged or misunderstood. …
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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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The First

Falling for someone is about the most dangerous thing a young trans person can do. In her new article, Aura Baroli writes about solitude, unexpected encounters and the beauty of human connection.  Warning: this article discusses serious topics, such…
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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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