Moreno Bernasconi: "The temptation of summary justice"
Modern law was born to curb arbitrariness, summary convictions without trial and put an end…
Articles by Moreno Bernasconi
MAGA or China: Is There a Third Way?
In this barbaric 21st century, anti-Trumpian America and Europe are confronted with a painful…
Moreno Bernasconi: Democracies need to rediscover their roots
It is clear that the alarm threshold has long since been exceeded (even for the…
Moreno Bernasconi: “What if Orwell was already reality?”
An attitude that scholars and politicians consider an alarming reflection of fear, a fortiori worrying…
From September 11th to October 7th
That date remains imprinted in widespread memory and in history books for what…
Moreno Bernasconi: Switzerland in the postmodern era
It seems incredible – after the Declaration of Human Rights and the creation of the UN – but…
Moreno Bernasconi: the unbearable impotence of the UN
The United Nations was created in 1945, with the aim of preventing a third war…
The intolerable threat of a new anti-Semitism
In a letter from 2001, after the attack on the twin towers and after receiving hateful…
Moreno Bernasconi: “Will beauty save the world?”
Similarly to those of medieval apocalyptic millenarianism – which arose during the scourges of the Black Death,…
Moreno Bernasconi: if the principle of reality fails
On October 30, 1938, the music program of the American radio station CBS was suddenly interrupted by the…
The threat of a new Inquisition
Since the beginning of the millennium it has been establishing itself in public opinion, and unfortunately also in a number…
The broken dream and Europe's dilemma
Who defined the new European and global balances after the Second World War? The…