Interview with Luigi Geninazzi on the killing of Father Bassilius Nassar in Hama, Syria and what that means for the Christians in the country, torn between the two sides of the civil war.

ANDREA STAITI asks how credit rating agencies can rate countries, and what standard they use. What is the ultimate good with which they compare everything in order to evaluate it?

Sante Maletta comments on the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and how there is the risk that it becomes trivialized and we choose either oblivion or moralism.

Webster Bull reviews Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, about a boy who loses his father in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and which has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

In Part 4 of his analysis, James Charles Livermore comments on the American entities that were “too big to fail” and what happened when they did fail. The financial war continues.

Elise Matich reviews Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, describing the empty detachment of postmodernity, only remnant of the excesses of modernity, that pervades the film.