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Luca G. Castellin
@lucagcastellin.bsky.social
Husband & Father I Historian of Political Thought
I Associate Professor at @unicatt.bsky.social I Working on political realism, nuclear weapons, and international thought
Grazie a Carlo Marsonet per la bella recensione su Il Foglio Quotidiano del volume che ho curato insieme a Giovanni Dessì, in cui sono raccolti alcuni saggi di Reinhold Niebuhr, “Realismo cristiano e potere politico” (Morcelliana Scholé).

🔗 Leggi qui: www.ilfoglio.it/una-fogliata...
Realismo cristiano e potere politico
La recensione del libro di Reinhold Niebuhr (a cura di L.G. Castellin e G. Dessì) edito da Scholé, 208 pp., 18 euro
www.ilfoglio.it
November 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Che cosa ci insegna “A House of Dynamite”?

Ne ho scritto qui: centridiricerca.unicatt.it/polidemos-no...
A House of Dynamite: Trump, Bigelow e l’incubo nucleare | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
centridiricerca.unicatt.it
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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I’m glad to share my new article, published in the first issue of Global Age — the new journal of Aseri – Graduate School of Economics and International Relations at @unicatt.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
📕 Da oggi in libreria!

www.carocci.it/prodotto/pen...
October 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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24.10.2025
September 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Dal 4 luglio in libreria!

www.morcelliana.net/collane-scho...
June 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The endless war is the beginning of the endless war
June 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Su Tempi c’è una mia intervista a proposito di Reinhold Niebuhr (e alcune recenti pubblicazioni per Scholé e Vita e Pensiero).

Grazie davvero a Carlo Marsonet per le belle domande!

www.tempi.it/chi-era-rein...
Chi era Reinhold Niebuhr, padre del “realismo cristiano”
«Il suo approccio consisteva nel riconoscere nell’uomo impulsi egoistici più forti di quelli altruistici, proponendo una visione antiutopica ma non nichilista». Intervista a Luca G. Castellin, curator...
www.tempi.it
June 19, 2025 at 6:22 AM
La signoria del mondo racchiude in sé una tentazione d’una particolare violenza. […] Noi troviamo i grandi dominatori del continente sempre minacciati dalla supervalutazione delle proprie possibilità.
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
È arrivata la morte! 💀 ☢️
June 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Tra qualche settimana in libreria!
June 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Oggi su il Giornale di Brescia c'è una mia intervista a proposito di "Realismo cristiano e potere politico" (Scholé), che ho curato insieme a Giovanni Dessì. Il volume esce domani nelle librerie (che, a questo punto, verranno prese d'assalto! 🤣)

www.giornaledibrescia.it/cultura/luca...
Castellin: «Il realismo cristiano di Niebuhr si rivolge all’uomo di oggi»
Il professore insieme a Giovanni Dessì ha curato una raccolta di saggi del teologo protestante a cui anche Barack Obama disse di ispirarsi ancor prima di essere eletto presidente.
www.giornaledibrescia.it
June 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Dal 6 giugno 2025 in libreria !

Mi fa piacere condividere la copertina di questa raccolta di scritti di Reinhold Niebuhr, che ho curato insieme a Giovanni Dessì, e tradotto con Luisa Borghesi, per Morcelliana Scholè.
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Luca G. Castellin
A quick explainer on the background to the current India-Pakistan situation. theconversation.com/india-and-pa...
India and Pakistan have fought many wars in the past. Are we on the precipice of a new one?
The worry is no other country will step in to mediate, leaving both sides to settle the conflict alone. A war between the two nuclear nations could be devastating.
theconversation.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Reposted by Luca G. Castellin
India said early Wednesday it had launched a military operation against Pakistan in a major escalation of tensions between the two neighbors.

Read more: cnn.it/42MuwEn
May 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Forthcoming…
May 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Really worrying!

To read @xriskology.bsky.social’s thread 🧵
Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
April 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Gv 20, 2-10
April 20, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reposted by Luca G. Castellin
FOLK MUSIC FRIDAYS!!

“THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE” is a song I wrote for Chris Cornell. During a dark period in Chris’ life he sent me a late night text which read “If you swallow the coin from the wishing well, your dreams will come true in heaven or hell.”
April 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
“Politics was not the pursuit of earthly salvation but a succession of expedients for coping with evils that cannot be eradicated.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/religion/2025/04/the-west-realism-of-religion
t.co
April 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Luca G. Castellin
"The Right's Co-opting of Post-liberalism"
Interview with John Milbank
cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/the-rights...
The Right's Co-opting of Post-liberalism
Milbank on the 2 kinds of post-liberalism
cracksinpomo.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Luca G. Castellin
Check out my opinion piece for @e-international.bsky.social. I argue that Trump's diplomatic conduct has not undermined Diplomacy as an institution of International Society; rather it has reminded us that it is contingent upon reciprocated practices. A 10-minute read!
www.e-ir.info/2025/04/13/o...
Opinion – Trump, Shattered Diplomacy and International Society
Trump’s break with traditional diplomatic norms is a potential pivot point where new expectations and possibilities for state behaviour may emerge.
www.e-ir.info
April 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Liberty as Independence
Convegno internazionale

🗓️ Martedì 15 aprile
📍 Unimi - Sala Napoleonica
⏰ 10:00-19:00

lastatalenews.unimi.it/eventi/liber...
April 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Luca G. Castellin
New article in our Frontiers of American Reaction series! Joshua Cherniss (@jcherniss.bsky.social) on the ethos and ethics of ruthlessness, and how they've come to be embodied in Trumpism. Check it out!

@ieres-gwu.bsky.social

www.illiberalism.org/the-ruthless...
The Ruthlessness is the Point: Trumpism and the Ethical Allure of Ruthlessness illiberalism.org |
Joshua Cherniss on the ethos and ethics of ruthlessness, and how they've come to be embodied in Trumpism.
www.illiberalism.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM