From Rocco to Borsellino: the culture of the State that the left (and even a certain right) has forgotten

In an essay that has just been released, the scholar Spartaco Pupo reconstructs the history of the idea of the State in the right from the early twentieth century to Brothers of Italy. The right and the State: a combination that seems to go without saying. And yet, often, in the imagination, things are not like that. Some adversarial propaganda has...

In an 1876 investigation, Leopoldo Franchetti pointed out the profound ambiguity between extortion and protection. About a century later, in 1964, Judge Cesare Terranova, in evaluating the position of the entrepreneur Moncada in contact with the criminal offender Michelangelo La Barbera, affirms that “it is not possible to establish whether he was the victim or maintenance of mobsters or rather one or the other depending on the various convenien…