News on the street
A picture says more than 1000 words, or so they say. And now, the news.
A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015
The economy has improved
By Krysta Kalachani Everyone is smiles in Athens. The crisis is almost over. Hiring is up! Indeed, according to an article in a major Greek news outlet two weeks ago there have been considerably more net hires than fires since ...
Dualing rallies: whose democracy?
By Krysta Editor’s note: Krysta Kalachani has been a regular contributor to Politis from Athens since 2010. She attended anti-memorandum rallies in downtown Athens throughout the summer of 2011 — despite managing tw...
A coin has two sides: the new Greek society emerging from the crisis
By Evangelos Kontos Experiencing these difficult days in Greek society first hand makes any person regardless of their political views, economic status, education, feel uncertain for the future, for the days to come. This uncer...
This is not Sparta
By Nikos Konstandaras Groups of left-wing protesters have been fighting to obstruct university reforms which, among other things, will put an end to their lengthy dominance. At the same time, groups of far-right thugs have step...
Saying of the day: 1/28/13
“Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.” — Giorgos Se...
From Delacroix to Dorian Grey
By David Wisner If I were a photographer, I would take portraits of individual sitters. I would try to capture one’s eternal youthfulness, and yet simultaneously project the whole of one’s temporal experience. As I ...
More measures? (sigh)
By Andy Dabilis Following a report from Greece’s creditors that shows tax collections are far off course despite big tax hikes, the International Monetary Fund has warned that unless revenues rise and tax cheats are caught th...
Gloomy news about our citizenship values
By Maria Patsarika A lot of gloominess in Asteris Houliaras’ note in Protagon this morning. The piece purports to offer analysis of a table representing “Attitudes to being rich.” The empirical evidence suppor...
Greece: mostly not free
2012 World Map of the Index of Economic Freedom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2012_World_Map_of_the_Index_of_Economic_Freedom.PNG).