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Federico Rampini

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Federico Rampini, born in Genoa in 1956 and a naturalised US citizen, is a journalist, essayist and columnist for Corriere della Sera. Over the course of his career, he has been deputy editor of Sole 24 Ore and a correspondent for la Repubblica in Brussels, San Francisco, Beijing and New York. He has taught at universities in Berkeley and Shanghai and at Bocconi, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is the author of numerous works on geopolitics, the global economy and relations between West and East. His most recent book is Argento vivo. Longevità, la rivoluzione incompresa del nostro tempo.

Society and geopolitics

Thank You, West!

Federico Rampini12 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October2 minutes read

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This is the conformism of our times: it demands that we regard the West as the supreme evil, the most wicked civilisation of all, and that we be ashamed of it. Naturally, of all this too, because it is part of Western culture.

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