The 250th anniversary of the United States comes at a time when transatlantic relations are facing significant challenges. Anti-American sentiment has resurfaced in parts of Europe, while many Americans have grown increasingly skeptical of the European model. Yet moments of tension and misunderstanding have recurred throughout the long history of the Atlantic alliance.
What can we learn from two and a half centuries of shared history to better understand one another today?
Federico Rampini and Bret Stephens, two journalists with extensive international experience, will bring their perspectives to this timely discussion. The conversation will be moderated by Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
Bio
Federico Rampini has been a foreign correspondent for major Italian newspapers in Paris, Brussels, San Francisco, Beijing, New York and Washington. He has written several books on geopolitics, which have been translated in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the creator of tv docu-series on geopolitics for the Italian tv networks La7 and Canale5.
Bret Stephens is an opinion columnist for The New York Times and the founder and editor-in-chief of SAPIR, a quarterly devoted to issues of Jewish concern. He has previously served as editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, a position he assumed when he was 28, and as foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal, where he also oversaw editorial-page coverage in Europe and Asia. He is a co-founder, with Garry Kasparov, of the Renew Democracy Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to defending democratic institutions at home and abroad. Bret was raised in Mexico City and educated at the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics. He has interviewed scores of world leaders and reported stories from the streets of Gaza to the hinterlands of Afghanistan to the ice sheet of Greenland. He is the author of “America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder” (2014).
Bret’s awards and honors include the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary, the 2019 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the 2023 Teddy Kollek Award, and three honorary doctorates. In 2022, the government of Russia barred him for life from entering that country.
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