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Vittorio Bufacchi
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Professor, Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland.
Latest book: 'Why Cicero Matters' (Bloomsbury 2023).
v.bufacchi@ucc.ie

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · 21d
Mercantilism is back. This is not the time to embrace neutrality. Yes, I'm looking at you, Ireland.
ucc.ie University College Cork @ucc.ie · 21d
Venezuela, Greenland...could Ireland be next?

What we are witnessing today is very similar to what European nations were doing for centuries before the 19th century, Professor Vittorio Buffachi @vittorio66.bsky.social writes.
Venezuela, Greenland... could Ireland be next?
Trump is bringing us back to the future with his unbridled mercantilist and colonial expansion plans. Ireland is vulnerable, writes Vittorio Bufacchi
www.irishexaminer.com

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University College Cork @ucc.ie · 21d
Venezuela, Greenland...could Ireland be next?

What we are witnessing today is very similar to what European nations were doing for centuries before the 19th century, Professor Vittorio Buffachi @vittorio66.bsky.social writes.
Venezuela, Greenland... could Ireland be next?
Trump is bringing us back to the future with his unbridled mercantilist and colonial expansion plans. Ireland is vulnerable, writes Vittorio Bufacchi
www.irishexaminer.com

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · 21d
My piece on Trump, mercantilism, and what the EU needs to do about it. Including a shout out to Federico Varese. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Venezuela, Greenland... could Ireland be next?
Trump is bringing us back to the future with his unbridled mercantilist and colonial expansion plans. Ireland is vulnerable, writes Vittorio Bufacchi
www.irishexaminer.com

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · 22d
Happy birthday, Antonio Gramsci. Born on this day in 1891, died in a Fascist prison in 1937. One of his most famous quotes was true in the 1930s, and it's still true today in the 2020s:
"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters".

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Jan 14
My analysis in @irishexaminer.bsky.social on patience, from Heraticlus to Montaigne to Hegel, all in less than 1000 words because no one has the patience to read anything longer these days.
Patience is good for democracy, just as tyranny feeds off impatience.
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Bringing back patience would be a good thing for democracy
By seeking shortcuts, we are issuing an open invitation to totalitarians
www.irishexaminer.com

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Jan 3
January 3rd, Cicero's birthday. Also today, Trump's kidnapping of Venezuelan president Maduro, in Venezuela.
How are Cicero and Trump related? Read here:
theconversation.com/a-short-hist...
A short history of the separation of powers: from Cicero’s Rome to Trump’s America
The checks and balances that hold a functioning democracy together may be coming under threat in the US.
theconversation.com

Reposted by Colm O’Cinneíde

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Dec 16
A symposium on my book 'Why Cicero Matters' has just been published online, with analysis by some of the most eminent classics scholars in the world: Victoria Rimell, Gesine Manuwald, Scott F. Aikin, Massimo Pigliucci, Lynn Fotheringham.
syndicate.network/symposia/phi...
Why Cicero Matters | Syndicate
syndicate.network

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Dec 15
A golden sky on Blue-sky. No filters. This is Anzio, near Rome, taken from a spot in close proximity to where Cicero had his villa. Smart guy this Cicero fella.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Dec 8
On Dec. 7th, 43 B.C., Roman philosopher and statesman was assassinated. The Roman Republic died with Cicero. He was killed by his enemies: populist, capricious authoritarians. Fast forward 2068 years...the rest is history repeating itself.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Dec 8
Excellent analysis

Reposted by Stefan Müller, Jane Suiter, Vittorio Bufacchi

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Theresa Reidy @theresareidy.bsky.social · Dec 8
Writing about immigration in @irishexaminer.bsky.social Govt taking a risk with tougher talk & policies. May look like it's following public opinion but Irish econ is hugely dependent on intrnl labour. Few parties have out flanked the right on migration & won www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Immigration rhetoric is a tightrope for Government
The Government is walking an economic tightrope and voters will not thank it if Ireland cannot find the people to deliver the services and infrastructure being loudly demanded, writes Professor Theres...
www.irishexaminer.com

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Nov 20
It's World Philosophy Day!
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Vittorio Bufacchi: Philosophy is an antidote to toxic certainty
The world desperately needs philosophy today, to stand up to totalitarianism, and halt the process of democratic backsliding, writes Vittorio Bufacchi on World Philosophy Day
www.irishexaminer.com

Reposted by David M. Farrell

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Nov 16
Join me on a live podcast next Thursday, November 20th, to celebrate World Philosophy Day.

Reposted by David M. Farrell, Vittorio Bufacchi

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Lukasz Krzywon @creativetogie.bsky.social · Nov 15
With professor @vittorio66.bsky.social
#WorldPhilosophyDay2025

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Nov 8
Are you in Cork City today? Why not pop along to Horgan's Quay 1 / T23 PPT8 near the Dean Hotel and visit the Mapping Climate Change exhibition. Open today until 4pm.

Open until 6th Dec:
Tue, Wed, Fri 12 – 4pm
Thur 4 – 7pm
Sat 10am – 4pm
Closed Sun / Mon

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Oct 25
There is only one take from the presidential election in Ireland: Catherine Connolly won by a HUGE margin. It was a POSITIVE campaign, and the LEFT candidate won fair and square.
The rest is minor details: spoiled votes, Jim Garvin, etc. is just background noise.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Oct 24
It's election day in Ireland. Go out and vote 🗳.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Oct 21
Yup, caught in the act, yet again, far-right bashing, this time on the far-right threat to public health.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Oct 10
Thomas Hobbes conference in Malmesbury (of course), March 2026. Spread the word. Send a paper proposal. Tell your students.
#Hobbes
#PhilosophyMatters

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Oct 5
With Catherine Connolly (future president of Ireland), John Maher, my daughter Natalie, and her friend Lidia.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Sep 23
Some people are expensive. Others are cheap. Me? I'm free.
👇

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Sep 18
Sorry I missed you at UCC yesterday, teaching got in the way of things.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Sep 18
If you are in Dublin on Saturday 27 September, come along to this free event! I'll be in conversation with the amazing Justine McCarthy of The Irish Times as part of the Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland 2025.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Sep 13
Canvassing with John Maher (Labour) for the next President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly.

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Aug 30
If you liked 'Free', you will love 'Indignity'. I read both. In this interview Lea Ypi says: "every voice out there is always a result of some power relation". Her book explores the indignity of dominant power relations, and yet there is always moral freedom. A beautiful book by a remarkable writer.
leaypi.bsky.social Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Aug 30
It was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · Aug 30
It was such a pleasure to discuss with the brilliant @shafakelif literature and politics, minorities in the Ottoman Empire, how the past conditions us, the role of writers in society, and much more... The joint interview is out in today's @theguardian.com link👇

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Aug 15
Hospitals in Gaza reported that eight people – including three children – died from starvation and malnutrition in the last 24 hours.
My piece for RTE Brainstorm on how Netanyahu's politics of starvation is starving human rights:
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How hunger and starvation are used as political weapons in Gaza. Hunger has been used as a weapon of war for millennia, but is now recognised both morally and legally as a crime against humanity, writes @vittorio66.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How hunger and starvation are used as political weapons in Gaza
Hunger has been used as a weapon of war for millennia, but is now recognised both morally and legally as a crime against humanity
www.rte.ie

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · Aug 14
How hunger and starvation are used as political weapons in Gaza. Hunger has been used as a weapon of war for millennia, but is now recognised both morally and legally as a crime against humanity, writes @vittorio66.bsky.social @ucc.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
How hunger and starvation are used as political weapons in Gaza
Hunger has been used as a weapon of war for millennia, but is now recognised both morally and legally as a crime against humanity
www.rte.ie

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Aug 13
My piece on the politics of hunger and starvation in Gaza:

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
www.rte.ie

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Vittorio Bufacchi @vittorio66.bsky.social · Aug 10
Having read all four Sally Rooney's novels, this is how I rate them:
1. Intermezzo
2. Normal People
3. Conversations with Friends
4. Beautiful World, Where Are You
Tell me if you agree or disagree.