The Judge and the Historian subject-international-politics unable to transcend the petty

The Judge and the Historian subject international politics unable to transcend the petty unable to transcend the petty grandeur of its nation states even in the face of unprecedented threats to peace The possibility of a universal emancipation is evoked in the transformation of language the historian Carlo Ginzburg draws on his work on witchcraft trials in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to dissect the weaknesses and contradictions of the state’s case in this late twentieth century political show trial and reflects more generally on the similarities and differences between the roles of the historian and the judge and the confession of a former member of Lotta Continua led to seven dubious court cases and a tale of political opportunism and dishonesty