MicroMega

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For Voltaire's short story, see Micromégas.

MicroMega is a political, cultural, social and economic magazine, published bimonthly in Italy.

It was founded in March 1986 by the editors Giorgio Ruffolo and Paolo Flores d'Arcais, published by the Espresso Group, a major publishing company. The paper is based in Rome, and the editor today is Paolo Flores d'Arcais.

The magazine was issued monthly from the 20th february to the 20th of april 2006, then weekly (over an eight-week period) during the 2006 Italian political campaign. In this time it was issued with the title La primavera di MicroMega. In 2007 the magazine is back to the original bimonthly format.

The title MicroMega is probably inspired to a tale by Voltaire.

During the first years, the paper had a subtitle: "le ragioni della sinistra" ("the leftist reasons"). Later this subtitle was removed. Each number has now a different title, inspired to a discussion theme.

The magazine is an elìte review including long essays and reports. Among the most important authors, the famous journalist Marco Travaglio. Many philosophers, scientists and other personalities have written on this paper, among them: Massimo Cacciari, Joseph Ratzinger, Bruno Forte, Michele Santoro, Gianni Vattimo, Leszek Kołakowski, Marcel Gauchet, Margherita Hack, Walter Veltroni.

MicroMega has an average edition of 25,000/30,000 copies. But, in 2006, some numbers sold more than 100,000 copies.