With Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s latest escapades, Italy’s standing in the world has never been so low as it is now. Indeed, as an Italian citizen, I’m often asked: “Why have Italians tolerated this man for so long?”, New York Times

NYT article by Federico Varese, a professor of criminology at Oxford University, is the author of the forthcoming “Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories.”