A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2015
Greeks not trying hard enough
By Livingston Merchant I just read the article entitled “The Greeks aren’t even trying,” in a blog named Testosterone Pit by Wolf Richter. I work as a professor of history and international affairs at Raparin ...
Saying of the day: 5/20/13
“Men with guns I’m used to. But kids without books, teachers or classes for a long time — that’s trouble. Big trouble. “ — Thomas Friedman
Indymedia: a different sort of public service
Indymedia. The website is on the Politechnic’s server, or at least was in the past. From time to time the people that write there are accused of being anarchists. Whoever likes can write on the website. They started as in...
Life lessons from Cyprus
By Edward Scicluna, Minister of Finance, Malta There is nothing more undignified than the sight of a bankrupt person begging for assistance. The contrasts between the cosy and sometimes sumptuous living before the event and the...
The new global populism
By John Judis ‘Something is happening and you don’t know what it is. Do you, Mr. Jones?’ Bob Dylan sang. Mr. Jones was the typical suburban ‘square,’ and the ‘something’ that was happening ...
Center right, center left: biology and politics
“A growing body of experimental research is finding evidence suggesting that, to some degree, political inclinations and ideological leanings may be tied to innate factors like a person’s biology, physiology and genetic...
The Stick: safe to leave home without it?
In a less than tongue-in-cheek account, Bloomberg’s Megan Greene recounts conversations she has had of late with former Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou in an attempt to make sense of what happened to the data sti...
Huffington Post: Greece Immigrants Face ‘Alarming’ Increase In Attacks, Group Says
Derek Gatopoulis 7/10/12 ATHENS, Greece — A leading human rights organization is urging Greece’s new government to take “urgent action” to curb an “alarming” increase in attacks against Asian and...
Toward a new American center?
David Brooks writes in his New York Times column today that President Obama made a strong case for a “pragmatic and patriotic progressivism” in his second inaugural address yesterday. Where does leave the thoughtful...