Claudio Cerasa, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Il Foglio, presents his latest book, L’Antidoto, published by Silvio Berlusconi Editore, in conversation with Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
Description
Isn’t it time to rebel? In the public debate of recent years, a perverse narrative has emerged that tends to interpret the present and the future through a rigidly catastrophic lens. Global crises, geopolitical tensions, environmental apocalypses, and a growing sense of Western disillusionment are often presented as signs of unstoppable decline, reducing the complexity of reality to a single story with no alternative—one based more on perceptions than on facts.
In this book, Claudio Cerasa dismantles the dogmas of contemporary pessimism and analyzes the mechanisms that fuel it: from the use of resentment in public debate to media shaming, from distorted interpretations of globalization to prejudices surrounding artificial intelligence.
L’Antidoto is a call for considered optimism: the only credible defense of Western democracy and the only method capable of distinguishing factual reality from the distortions produced by viral amplification.
BIO
Claudio Cerasa was born in Palermo in 1982 and has lived in Rome for many years. He joined Il Foglio in 2005 and has served as the newspaper’s editor-in-chief since January 2015, His books include Ho visto l’Uomo Nero (Castelvecchi, 2007), La presa di Roma (BUR Rizzoli, 2009), Le catene della sinistra (Rizzoli, 2014), Tra l’asino e il cane (with Francesco Pugliese, Rizzoli, 2015), Io non posso tacere (with Piero Tony, Einaudi, 2015), Abbasso i tolleranti (Rizzoli, 2018), and Le catene della destra (Rizzoli, 2022), L’antitodo (Silvio Berluscono Ediotre, 2026).
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