Mattia Ferraresi

Mattia Ferraresi is a journalist and writer from Modena. He works for the daily newspaper Domani, where he mainly covers foreign affairs. He was the paper’s editor-in-chief for four years.

Throughout his career, he has written for numerous Italian and international publications. He spent ten years as US correspondent for Il Foglio, and his articles have appeared in, amongst others, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. Between 2018 and 2019, he was a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

He is the author of several books. These include Obama. L’irresistibile ascesa di un’illusione (Obama The Irresistible Rise of an Illusion) (Rubbettino, 2010), co-written with Martino Cervo;  Politica americana (American Politics )(Luiss University Press, 2016);  La febbre di Trump (Trump Fever)(Marsilio, 2016); Il secolo greve (The Heavy Century) (Marsilio, 2017); Oltre la paura (Beyond Fear )(Lindau, 2018), co-authored with Massimo Camisasca; Solitudine: il male oscuro delle civiltà occidentali (Solitude: The Dark Evil of Western Societies)  (Einaudi, 2020); and I demoni della mente. Il racconto di un’epoca in cui non si ha fiducia in niente ma si crede a tutto (The Demons of the Mind: The Story of an Era in Which Nothing Is Trusted but Everything Is Believed)  (Mondadori, 2024).

In May 2026, he published Dentro la testa di Trump. Storia delle idee che non sa di avere (Inside Trump’s Head: A History of the Ideas He Doesn’t Realise He Has) (Mondadori), in which he reconstructs the ideas, cultural currents and political transformations that contributed to the emergence and rise of the Trump movement.
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