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Freedom of thought and charlie kirk

Charlie Kirk: freedom of thought and Christian values

Junio Caselli14 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October5 minutes read

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This is an article in defence of free thought and Christian values. I greatly admired Charlie Kirk. Today would have been his thirty-third birthday. I liked Charlie Kirk when he was alive, very much enjoyed following him and naturally warme…

Culture and social sciences

The Genealogy of Culture

Massimo Salvati29 September 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October11 minutes read

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What is culture? It seems a trivial question, but it is anything but. Culture is commonly defined as ‘the body of knowledge, values, beliefs and behaviours that an individual acquires through study or that a social group shares and passes d…

Management and philosophy

Philosophy Serves to Create Concepts

Il Redattore7 August 2026Year I • issue 4 July–August5 minutes read

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Companies should hire philosophers, because philosophers create concepts. Companies are complex structures fuelled by meaning. They need to be understood by those who work in them and by the market, but they also need to understand the mark…

Workplace psychology and organisations

Toxic boss: when the word conceals the real problem

Laura Colombo16 September 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October5 minutes read

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Every age produces its own keywords. Some finally make visible phenomena that already existed but did not yet have a shared name. In the world of work, few words in recent years have enjoyed the success of the adjective "toxic".

Complexity and organisations

The single cause always has a client

Matteo Nardini4 September 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October10 minutes read

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Explanations that hold up in a meeting almost never describe what is happening

Religion and politics

Remigrating Unassimilated Priests

Junio Caselli14 September 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October13 minutes read

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The Catholic Church has an assimilation problem. Except that it concerns ordained priests, who are within the Church but no longer assimilated.

Organisation and leadership

Intelligence lies at the borders

Alessandro Gencarelli29 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October5 minutes read

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Those who sell know things the company does not. Gathering that knowledge is not enough: decisions must move to where it is.

Complexity and change

Tipping points, points of no return

Enrico Cerni29 July 2026Year I • issue 4 July–August3 minutes read

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You get that far and it seems as though the landscape you are looking at could stay that way for ever, pleasantly placid, with a few bends, a few rises and falls and the odd unexpected hairpin turn, because the panoramas granted to human be…

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Freedom of thought and charlie kirk

Charlie Kirk: freedom of thought and Christian values

Junio Caselli14 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October5 minutes read

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Organisation and leadership

Intelligence lies at the borders

Alessandro Gencarelli29 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October5 minutes read

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Those who sell know things the company does not. Gathering that knowledge is not enough: decisions must move to where it is.

Communication and organisational culture

Lost Words

Federico Ott22 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October7 minutes read

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We have words for selling, words for buying, words for making words But we need words for thinking We have words for killing, words for sleeping, words for tickling But we need words for loving.

Society and generations

Grown-up Talk

Silvia Lonardo8 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October2 minutes read

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“The adults are talking here, off you go and play” “It’s none of your business, you can’t have your say” This is “grown-up talk”, how often have you heard it? You’re no welcome guest in their discussions.

Corporate rituals and kpis

Which cult do you work for?

Junio Caselli8 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October6 minutes read

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Some companies are genuine corporations; others merely play the part. The former have tens of thousands of employees, offices in many countries, inevitably complex processes and a genuine need to translate what happens into numbers that can…

Sociology and philosophy of knowledge

The Tuning Fork Effect: The Hidden Memory of Conventions

Alessandro Aiello21 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October10 minutes read

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There is a moment, before the concert begins, when the orchestra performs a gesture that no one in the audience considers worthy of particular attention.

AI and philosophy of knowledge

When plausibility becomes knowledge

Walter Quattrociocchi19 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October2 minutes read

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One of the fundamental properties of complex systems is feedback: what happens within the system alters the conditions that will produce what happens next

Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of knowledge

When Help Becomes Substitution

Alejandro Sinopoli23 October 2026Year I • issue 5 September–October5 minutes read

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Artificial intelligence can help us think. But there is a point at which assistance stops supporting the human process and begins to perform it in our place.