Other Work by Christopher Winner
The Italian method
Italy's history of wartime failure and ongoing sense of global inadequacy make combat deaths unbearable.
21st century fox
Silvio Berlusconi may be over the top, but someone put him there.
Hornets
"Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut."
Forbidden foreboding
The L'Aquila quake only lightly jarred Rome, but a message hung heavy.
Mosque-cum-museum
The Italian philosophy of presapocchismo is beginning to creep West.
The speech
If an inaugural speech is part insight and part rhetoric, President Barack Obama performed ably.
New man, old story
History was made, yes. But Obama's victory fit a traditional and cyclical political model.
Carnal knowledge
Once-upon-a-time in Rome, newspapers and sex seemed on and the same.
Voice of America
Photoshop aside, Sarah Palin speaks the unspeakable — the new English language.
Bullies
Surprised that "new age" Russia's on the move? Don't be.
Red boy, Hitler boy
When Spain played soccer, taking the other side was an unwise move.
Numeral stew
By winning national elections, Silvio Berlusconi has entered Italy's top-flight Roman numeral league.
Author
Christopher P. Winner
Paris-born Christopher P. Winner began his long journalistic career as sports editor of the now-defunct Rome Daily American in 1975.