An American journalist heads for Italy to see his country changing from afar.

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  • Lessons for us today, from Italians

    I love old books lining bookshelves. The collection in the North Carolina home of a couple of friends held classics of Machiavelli scholarship. I gently pulled out, like sneaking a square of chocolate fudge, a vellum-bound volume. Carol Darr, the… Continue reading

    Lessons for us today, from Italians

  • Putting on the Ritz

    Here’s a cultural contrast between a pretty Sunday in Italy and one in the United States. It’s based, unfairly, on my own unscientific impressions. In Italy, I was lucky to be on the faculty of a one-month program for five… Continue reading

    Putting on the Ritz