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This space is dedicated to occasional essays on history, philosophy, politics, law, economics, literature, and the arts, from a liberal perspective.
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Exciting Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity in Athens!
A Unique Research Journey into Enlightenment and Revolution Awaits!
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Minds corrupted by rust and inertia
The normalization and tolerance of politically motivated violence in Greek universities reflects a broader societal and institutional failure driven by…
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The ‘arguments’ of thugs
The hallmark of religious fanatics is not dogmatism, but their inability to accept that someone else has different preferences and opinions.
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The institutional deficit
Why the citizens of Greece do not have confidence in the democratic institutions
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The Official Guide to Today’s Inauguration
Everything you need to know about the 2025-2028 presidential term in the United States
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The Republic of Seven Months
A Brief Parliamentary History of Europe’s First but Short-Lived Liberal Democracy (1827-1828)
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Holiday Greetings
from our Lab
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James Madison on the Decline and Fall of Republics
and what might happen to the American Republic
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Byron on Liberalism
What kind of liberal Byron was, and what did liberalism mean in the early 1820s?
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In the dark forest
The wiretapping scandal exemplifies what is wrong in Greece: the dysfunction of institutions, the judiciary, the political and economic systems, civil…
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Institutional successes and failures of the Greek Third Republic (1974-2024)
What are the achievements we should protect? What are the failures we should eliminate?
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Liberal Illusions
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