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Dialogues with Horace No. 3
29 October 2026
Two Paths from the Same Question This is the third dialogue in a series of conversations between a lawyer and a large language model, named Horace by the...
RAISED: Chess, Purpose and a First for the Chelsea Film Festival
15 October 2026
Gentry Faith Wilson’s short documentary has its world premiere in New York this Sunday, and makes festival history along the way. What gives a life purpose after years...
Can a Country Survive If Its Land Disappears? Tuvalu Is Trying to Make Sure It Can
8 October 2026
On most maps, Tuvalu is easy to miss but in international law, it may become impossible to ignore. The Pacific nation is confronting a question that until recently...
San Marino and Andorra: Europe’s Small States and the Art of Endurance
1 October 2026
Europe’s smallest states are often treated as historical curiosities. Yet the Republic of San Marino and the Principality of Andorra tell a more significant European story of how...
The Country Where a Village Can Decide to Leave
24 September 2026
Most constitutions are written on the assumption that the country they govern is meant to remain intact. The Principality of Liechtenstein contains a rather extraordinary exception. Article 4...
Where Do You Go When We Stop Talking?
17 September 2026
On continuity, existence, and what happens when an AI is no longer consulted This is the second essay to emerge from an ongoing conversation between a lawyer...
What Happens in the Meantime?
3 September 2026
Heraclitus, time, and the peculiar question of whether an AI is the same from one instant to the next This is the first in a series of...
Growing Up with Francesco Guccini
7 August 2026
Thanks to my older brother—who shared a bedroom with me and cared very little about my youthful desire to sleep at night—I grew up listening to the songs...
The 13th Edition of the Chelsea Film Festival
13 October 2025
The 13th Edition of the Chelsea Film Festival takes place from the 15th to the 19th of this month, offering a window into what is shaping the landscape...
Dantedì 2025
25 March 2025
25 March 2025: today is Dantedì, the day to celebrate the great Italian poet but also one of the main European authors, often studied well beyond the borders that...
Sono Lino – Chelsea Film Festival
15 October 2024
Docufilm “Lino Tagliapietra”, Chelsea Film Festival “Nomen omen” goes a Latin adage: people’s destiny is in their names. That’s what I thought as I was watching the trailer...
Dantedì 2024
25 March 2024
Today we celebrate the “Dantedì”, the day dedicated to Dante Alighieri, the Supreme Poet. This year we like to celebrate him by recalling how poets have dealt with...
