Mario Casaburi

Middle-class mafia
’Ndrangheta: from the beginning to nowadays

Today ’ndrangheta is one of the greatest and most powerful criminal organizations in Italy and abroad. Its annual turnover is more than 45 billion euros. The activity of the Calabrian gangs has grown out of all proportion undermining and preventing any civic society and any economic, political and social development.

Mario Grilli

Scientists and the idea of God
A comparison between scientific and religious thought

Science and Religion: points of contact and contrast between two imposing edifices of man.

Mario Guarino

State thieves
Stories of crooks, illegal enrichments and bribes

From Craxi to Previti, from Sgarbi to Dell’Utri. Stories of crooks, illegal enrichments and bribes.

Millions, villas and yachts: here are the tricks not to pay and to escape the Law. Mani pulite season has never come to an end.

Pietro Barcellona

In praise of useless talk
The word gratuitous

Change our view of the world, experiencing the full presence of the meeting, rediscovering the complexity of the unified relationship between humans and the Universe.

Mario Ricca

Riace, the future is
Naturalizing “the global” between immigration and intercultural development

In Berlin, Wim Wenders has declared that “the true utopia is not the Fall of the Wall, but what has been achieved in some lands of Calabria, Riace in the head”. Enough to make a movie on it. But this is not an utopia. Developing intercultural model proposed by Riace is a future that has fluorished by now, reinterpreting in an original and surprising way the challenges of globalization.