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Lunchtime in Italy

John Fea   |  November 11, 2022

Over at Boston Review, Jonathan Levy writes; “Lunchtime in Italy is not only about what to eat for lunch. It is also about time.” The lunchtime tradition, he adds, “allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline of […]

On “vicious political disagreement” and civic life

John Fea   |  May 6, 2022

Here is a taste of Quinta Jurecic‘s piece at The Atlantic: Recently, pundits and journalists haveĀ tendedĀ toĀ frameĀ worriesĀ over the presence of violence in American politics as a question of whether the United States is slipping into a second civil war. There are […]