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Saving lives in poorer countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving and improving lives in richer countries. Why? Wealthier countries generate far more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive.” This is what Nicholas Beckstead, a proponent of longtermism, wrote in his doctoral thesis in philosophy. If innovation and economic productivity represent our only units of measurement for evaluating the future and the well-being of fu

How progress makes us responsable for our own surveillance What if we had sold our freedom of choice simply by signing a (virtual) contract? Every time we accept a website’s terms and conditions, it is as if we step into the Lumon elevator from Severance, Dan Erickson’s TV series: we cross a threshold beyond which we begin serving a master we cannot see. Yet, while in the series a surgical procedure is required to sever employees’ memories, in reality an algorithm is enough t

There was a time when creativity was a precise word. Not necessarily rare, but recognizable. It pointed to a process, an effort, often a risk. Calling yourself creative wasn't enough to be creative: you had to prove it, over time, through work, through results. That's no longer the case. "Creative" has become one of the most used and, at the same time, most hollowed-out adjectives in the contemporary workplace. Scroll through LinkedIn job listings or Instagram professional bi

The Super Bowl of 2026 hosted a decidedly memorable Halftime Show. The star of the performance was the Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, pseudonym of Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, who built a performance as a tribute to the entire American continent, placing at its center fundamental themes such as the unity of American peoples, at a time marked by strong tensions in the United States. For the occasion, Bad Bunny wore a custom piece designed by Zara, a Spanish fast fashion bra

Baggy jeans, an Adelphi Edizioni book in hand, a slouched posture and a matcha latte resting on a small table: this is the most debated aesthetic of recent months, born and amplified especially on social media through memes and viral trends. Behind the so-called “performative male” lies the drama of contemporary relationships: liquidity (cf. Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Life , 2005), fragility that is not truly accepted, simulated identities (cf. Erving Goffman, The Presentation of

“No one may be detained for the execution of a sentence in an institution that does not have a regularly available bed space”. It is with this sentence that Riccardo Magi and other opposition deputies ignite the debate on one of the most pressing issues of the Italian penal system: prison overcrowding. The proposal introduces a key principle: no one can enter prison if there is no availability of a place that complies with standards of dignity and safety. The minimum standard

War constitutes one of the densest symbolic spaces in the Western literary tradition, not so much as a historical fact but as a form through which human beings have thought about their relationship with time, with action and with finitude. If, in the epic horizon, it appears as an original and foundational experience, capable of giving meaning to existence and making it narratable, in twentieth-century modernity war undergoes a progressive loss of ontological consistency. It

Colonization is a subject that is little known, or not known at all, since it is often confused with the causes of migration; in reality, colonization began as a project of territorial exploration, the intention to create and spread violence was not contemplated, rather it was a consequence of the discovery of new peoples whom they did not expect to find, as they believed they were the only ones, not knowing any lands other than their own. Thus, missionaries gave rise to what

Gillian Anderson, an American actress, has portrayed Dana Katherine Scully since 1993, a medical doctor and FBI agent in the well known television series The X-Files. But why has this character been talked about so much, and still is today. To understand this, it is necessary to analyze the media context of the 1990s. During that period, women on television were often reduced to secondary roles, they represented wives, mothers, workers or had a purely aesthetic function. Then

If the Italian right invokes “God, nation and family,” we should ask: which God, which nation, which family is it talking about?The answer seems immediate: ours, the Italian one. But if a significant portion of families now lives in economic precarity, if work no longer guarantees security, if trust in institutions erodes and social cohesion weakens, then what remains of that promise? And above all: which God is supposed to save us? Those paying closer attention may recall th

Today, as every year, many capitals and institutions around the world pause to commemorate the atrocities of the past. Memory is a sacred act, a moral commitment to prevent the brutality of man toward his fellow beings from repeating itself. But to what extent can we consider our duty of memory fulfilled when the world continues to consume a systemic tragedy before our eyes? When we speak of genocide, many nations rightly evoke the most devastating historical experience of th

“ I cannot touch things. They are there, in front of me, yet they always remain beyond my reach, as if an invisible skin separated them from me. Objects, faces, feelings: everything appears distant, inert. My life flows like a catalogue of aborted attempts. This is why I say that boredom is nothing but a defect of reality”. This is how Dino, the protagonist of Boredom , might write. In him, boredom is neither languor nor laziness: it is the very substance of his existence. Ar

Every year we celebrate it as if it were an act of freedom. The countdown, the toast, the collective promise that this time it will be different. The new year arrives loaded with moral expectations: improve yourself, get back in shape, work harder (or better), love better, finally be “enough.” New Year’s Eve has become the great secular ritual of our time: an illusion of control over time, over the future, over ourselves. And yet, if we stop for a moment, a less comforting tr

The era of emotional numbness Horror, destruction, and suffering.Our everyday life is constantly stimulated by what’s happening in Gaza: images and videos scroll across our screens at the speed of a click — yet our brain doesn’t seem to feel it anymore.How did we get here? Starting in 1965, the Vietnam War marked a turning point in civilian involvement in international affairs. The “first televised war” triggered a deep public awareness, largely due to the visual trauma of t

They say September is the perfect month to start over, and yet things are going from bad to worse: the Israeli government has bombed...