Francesco Giubilei on the Election of Giorgia Meloni, Italian Politics, and the Future of European Conservatism

In this episode: 

• Francesco Giubilei joins the podcast to discuss the current landscape of Italian politics and how it led to the election of Giorgia Meloni
• the relationship between Italy and the European Union, and the major problems with globalization that have produced a nationalist backlash
• How the Middle Ages shaped the local diversity of Italian cities and cultures, how the Catholic Church has played a defining role in the cultural and religious identity of Italy, and why the Roman Empire is the beginning of Italian conservatism

Texts Mentioned:

• The History of European Conservative Thought by Francesco Giubilei
• Interpretations of Fascism by Renzo de Felice
• “The Perfect Consumer” speech by Giorgia Meloni
• The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa
• The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto del Noce
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• “Why I Became a Conservative” by Sir Roger Scruton

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