Analysing American society and finding little hope for it has almost become a 'favourite sport' for sociologists. Another book on this theme illustrates the strongly-felt and yet somehow 'manufactured' crisis of conscience in the USA.

Review of Girolamo Imbruglia. Utopia. Una storia politica da Savonarola a Babeuf, Rome: Carocci, 2021, reviewed by Maria Matilde Benzoni

Utopia can be conceived as a possibility – a space within language, a set of principles, or the product of technological development – but it cannot be separated from questions of place, or more accurately, questions of “no place.” In between the theoretically imaginable utopia and its realisation in a particular time and place, there is a space of critique, which is exploited in anti-Utopian a...

Soil moisture changes are generally due to external factors (precipitation, evaporation, etc.) and internal forces (gravitational force, capillarity, transpiration, etc.). When soil temperatures remain below 0 °C for a long time (hours or even entire consecutive days), part of the liquid water content of the soil can freeze, thus freezing/thawing effects must be taken into account in those cond...

You’re going on holiday to a place called Utopia, which is lovely, or so they say. Your case is packed, and you have your passport and visa. Then come murmurings about the weather. What do the meteorologists say? Well, we’ve had enough of experts. You’re told that lots of doctors and nurses are leaving Utopia. People from the business world are starting to worry about the effects of trade deals...