Basilio Korman / 21 Nov 2023
Losing Our Illusions
Italy After Gaza
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s in a middle-class, northern Italian household.(...)
- Basilio Korman is a journalist based in Turin, Italy.
9 articles
Basilio Korman / 07 Jul 2023
Twilight of a Populist
The End of Silvio Berlusconi
It’s often written that Silvio Berlusconi’s political fortunes lasted almost thirty years, from 1994 to his death in 2023. But this is not true.(...)
Basilio Korman / 17 Jun 2023
Only Loyal to Himself
Silvio Berlusconi and L’Etat Pour Moi
There’s an old Doonesbury comic strip about a group of rich people attending a seminar to overcome their guilt about being rich.(...)
Basilio Korman / 30 May 2022
The Story of a Hardcore Band
Collezione di Attimi, by Negazione
For a brief period, Italy was home to the best punk in Europe. (...)
Basilio Korman / 22 Oct 2021
Coronavirus Hijackers
Forza Nuova and the Roma Riots
The Green Pass is the Italian version of the EU Digital COVID Certificate. (...)
Basilio Korman / 03 Mar 2021
Vaffanculo, 2020
Coronavirus in Italian
Summer 2020 arrived late. Or at least that's the way we felt. We'd been stuck in Torino because of COVID since the end of February. (...)
Basilio Korman / 24 Sep 2020
Preaching Truth to Falsehood
Remembering Rossana Rossanda
Rossana Rossanda, the self-described “girl from the past century”, who died on Sunday at the age of 96, was many things. First and foremost, she was a Communist intellectual and a Communist militant.(...)
Basilio Korman / 20 Mar 2020
Survival in Turin
Life Under Lockdown
I’m in the second week of self-imposed Coronavirus isolation, and the fourth day of the nationwide lockdown mandated by the Italian government to stop - or at least slow - the epidemic. (...)
