Riccardo Colasanti is an Italian physician and academic whose work focuses on migration health, medical anthropology, ethics, and global development. He has developed an international career spanning Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
A central aspect of his trajectory is his longstanding commitment to migrant and marginalized populations. In 1982, he founded and directed the first Italian medical center dedicated to migrants in irregular situations, a pioneering initiative in providing healthcare to excluded communities.
His work has also extended to direct service and collaboration with humanitarian and faith-based organizations, including initiatives supporting Roma communities (General Secretary of Charities of Rome) . In the academic field, he has been actively involved with St. John’s University (New York), where he co-founded and taught in the Master’s program in Global Development and Social Justice, and with UPAEP (Mexico), where he has held leadership (Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences).
Throughout his career, Colasanti has integrated ethical reflection with practical healthcare approaches, emphasizing solidarity, dignity, and access to care for migrants and other vulnerable populations.
1 September 2026
What is happiness? For much of the West, happiness is living in a society that’s like a massive amusement park—a noisy, colorful world where one can get by by hopping from one digital game to another, always young, always having fun, and always entertaining others. The progress of nations can only aim for this ultimate goal.
After all, the great dream—“Make It Great Again”—is to expand the amusement park and equip it with even more beautiful and newer rides: if possible, without having to pay for them.
Certainly, the land of milk and honey, the Shangri-La, is threatened by villains, terrorists, migrants, and the world’s poor. But let them stay out. A good whack with a baton will be enough to make them flee, or a nice deportation program—an expression of the great charity of Western thought.
We have degraded ourselves so much that we have reached our lowest point. The Land of Plenty, Shangri-La—if you look closely—seems more like a ballroom with a broken heater, where worn-out seniors with dyed hair are still looking for a dance partner. With ordinary, worn-out music.
5 July 2026
According to Pavel Florensky, the “fundamental difficulty” of ancient metaphysics lies in how to reconcile unity with multiplicity.
Applied to the field of …
18 May 2026
It is highly likely that in the future—with artificial intelligence surpassing and replacing our own, and robots taking our jobs—our lives will be reduced, at least in Western countries, to that of mere consumers of mass media content. But this is the positive scenario, the best-case scenario. There is worse. Mass media content is, in fact, produced because there are those who, in one form or another, pay for its consumption—that is, purchase it. But if robots replace physical labor and AI replaces intellectual labor, then the production of wealth will remain in the hands of our artificial counterparts. The market will become a matter of buying and selling between computers and robots. Humans will be excluded from the production cycle and, consequently, from remuneration. The capitalist economy will change profoundly. We will no longer be able to acquire mass media content because we will have nothing with which to exchange for the purchase. The market—the omnipresent, omnipotent market—will remain only a memory of the past, because society will revert to a feudal system in the hands of those few who control robots and AI. It appears that Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will build 1,000,000 Optimus all-purpose robots by 2030. Now, while it is true that scientific discoveries of the past have always required human personnel, it seems that robots are now crossing the line: if they can replicate every aspect of humans, then they can replace the human workforce.
5 March 2026
It is always terrible to see how humanity, generation after generation, finds its greatest aspiration in war, murder, and destruction. In the annihilation of …
6 February 2026
It seems that so-called political realism is in vogue, i.e., that there are no laws or rules to protect us, but that it is only important to know how to …
5 February 2026
Those who go against justice are like wild beasts to other men. With sharp teeth and sweaty, shivering skin.
The harshness of strong men, their animal nature, …
14 January 2026
The year 2026 will likely mark the beginning of a new era, one of artificially produced literature that is indistinguishable from text written by humans. As the …
20 December 2025
Referring to the relationship between doctors and cancer patients, the president of the Rome Medical Association recently stated that it is “a …
15 April 2025
After the Second World War we witnessed the aggregation of local markets into universal markets. This trend was driven by at least two postulates: that the …
5 March 2025
As is well known, the distinction in politics between “right” and “left” has long since lost its raison d’être. Today, the division between progressives …
20 August 2024
The ordinary person, the one who is not an expert and has not studied the “sacred texts” of law believes that the essence of the law is justice. …