Archive - Liberal Illusions

Exciting Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity in Athens!

A Unique Research Journey into Enlightenment and Revolution Awaits!

May 16 •

Aristides Hatzis

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…

May 10 •

Aristides Hatzis

March 2025

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.

Mar 21 •

Aristides Hatzis

February 2025

The institutional deficit

Why the citizens of Greece do not have confidence in the democratic institutions

Feb 7 •

Aristides Hatzis

January 2025

The Official Guide to Today’s Inauguration

Everything you need to know about the 2025-2028 presidential term in the United States

Jan 20 •

Aristides Hatzis

The Republic of Seven Months

A Brief Parliamentary History of Europe’s First but Short-Lived Liberal Democracy (1827-1828)

Jan 8 •

Aristides Hatzis

December 2024

Holiday Greetings

Dec 25, 2024 •

Aristides Hatzis

November 2024

James Madison on the Decline and Fall of Republics

and what might happen to the American Republic

Nov 7, 2024 •

Aristides Hatzis

September 2024

Byron on Liberalism

What kind of liberal Byron was, and what did liberalism mean in the early 1820s?

Sep 15, 2024 •

Aristides Hatzis

August 2024

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…

Aug 9, 2024 •

Aristides Hatzis

July 2024

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?

Jul 24, 2024 •

Aristides Hatzis

June 2024

The Italian “founder” of modern Greece

New evidence on Vincenzo Gallina, one of the authors of the first Greek revolutionary Constitution of 1822.

Jun 25, 2024 •

Aristides Hatzis

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