The rejection of tyranny is the founding myth of democracy. Tyranny is the arbitrary power of a single man, driven by his impulses and his temptation to enslave others, by practicing an unjust policy.

On March 1, 2022, the Italian writer Paolo Nori denounced the cancellation by the University of Milan-Bicocca of his course dedicated to the Russian writer Dostoevsky[3]. A curious coincidence, because if there is one literature that denounces the totalitarian temptation, it is that of Dostoevsky, as Koestler understood very well, and who even alluded to it in Darkness at Noon: "The question is whether the student Raskolnikov had the right to kill the old pawnbroker. He is yo

Conflict and harassment do not mix well, because where the former is not allowed, the latter takes its place. In fact, a conflict always has a fruitful dimension, which is conceived in terms of its resolution. In harassment, the dimension is destructive. What about mediation?