“THIS reminds me of my school days in Italy in the 1970s,” says Luigi Zingales, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. That was a time of political and social turmoil when graffiti proclaimed that “killing fascists is an act of love” and high-school teachers were almost uniformly committed socialists or communists. One of Mr Zingales’s teachers encouraged his pupils to bring daily papers to school, except for Il Giornale, a conservative daily founded by Indro Montanelli, one of Italy’s most brilliant journalists—and an acerbic critic of the left. Since his father was an avid reader of Il Giornale, it was the only paper Zingales junior turned up to school with.
Forty years later, Mr Zingales is making himself unpopular again, going against the grain by inviting Steve Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, to a debate at the...Continue reading
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