Italia Sinistra: A Report from Rome

There is nothing that can put the Italian crisis into perspective quite like a few weeks in Italy itself, riding the rickety buses, coping with the ineffectual officialdom, bringing fresh linens to neglected patients in state hospitals, eating in desperate little trattorias, and being hooted aside by the arrogant rich in their Alfa Romeos in the shabby, littered streets. It is not about the Defense of Christian Values or about the Rebirth of Communism: it is a search for an effective governme...