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Why It Feels Like Christmas Comes Around More Quickly Each Year

Christmas is coming around faster the older we get. A survey of 918 adults in the UK found 77 percent of respondents agreed Christmas seems to arrive more quickly with each passing year, but why is this? By Ruth Ogden Think...

Killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos Still Haunts Greece

December 6th marks the anniversary of the murder of fifteen-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas in 2008, an act that stands as a landmark case of police brutality in Greece. In more peaceful times, Greek society would mourn...

Kissinger Owed an Apology to Greece and Cyprus

A year before Henry Kissinger's death Michael Rubin, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute wrote a polemic calling on him to apologize to Greece and Cyprus over his role during the Turkish invasion of 1974. Writing in the...

‘To Divide Is to Destroy’: The Parthenon Marbles and the Integrity of Monuments

As the Vatican Museums become the latest collection to return Parthenon marbles to Athens, the British Museum continues to give short shrift to Greece’s calls for repatriation. By Catharine Titi One of the most surprising claims the British Museum makes when...

Modern Greek Argonauts: What Is Fated Is Impossible to Escape 

The modern Greek Argonauts are the Diaspora, following the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts to retrieve the Golden Fleece from remote Colchis. By Steve Bakalis In antiquity, many Greeks migrated to new Hellenistic cities founded in Alexander the Great’s wake. The...

What Witches From Ancient Greece Tell Us About Modern Witchcraft

From ancient Greece through Puritan New England, witches functioned as easy targets for cultural anxieties about gender, power, and mortality. By Joel Christensen Living on the North Shore in Boston in the fall brings the gorgeous turning of the leaves and...

How the Athens Polytechnic Uprising Ideals Lost their Glow

The Athens Polytechnic uprising anniversary on November 17 against the military dictatorship in Greece has lost its glow and it is often marred by clashes between police and extreme left groups. In November 1973, it had been six and a...

Modern Stoics on TikTok Distort Ancient Greek, Roman Philosophers

Modern stoics on TikTok diverge quite a bit from what the ancient philosophers of Stoicism espoused. Their ideas around happiness and productivity are not the same as modern influencers think they are. By Matthew Duncombe I don’t know about you, but...

Greece and Ireland: Two Divergent Modernization Paths

In less than four decades, Ireland, unlike Greece, has gone from one of the poorest countries in the EU to one of the richest. On the contrary, Greece not only went bankrupt but was left behind, far behind. By George K....

Ottoman Empire: Five Things You Need to Know

For centuries, empires were the dominant form of political organization. In the West, there is some degree of familiarity with the British, French, and German empires as well as the empires of Spain and Portugal. Of course, there are...

The Haunting 100-year Parallel Between Greeks and Armenians

2023 marks the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne, which efficiently ended the last traces of Greeks in Asia Minor and the Armenians in Artsakh. By Julian McBride 2023 marks the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne, which efficiently ended the...

Athens Defies Male-Dominated Politics in Greece

Athens has defied male-dominated politics in Greece by electing 15 female councilors out of a total of 26 in the recent municipal elections. Time will tell if modern Athens by “Embracing of the Feminine Power of Athena’s Wisdom” will...

Massive Spending in War Against Sparta Backfired in Ancient Athens

A historian looks at the plague that hit Ancient Athens and explains how a massive government spending plan backfired 2,500 years ago. 

What Do Investing and Flying Airplanes Have in Common?

A combat pilot turned financial guru reflects on the similarities of flying planes and investing. By John P. Calamos, Sr* I’m often asked how I first became interested in convertible securities. In fact, my background in convertibles actually pre-dates the founding...

High Olive Oil Prices Worldwide: Are They Worth Paying?

Countless headlines refer to the high prices of olive oil. Climate change-induced heatwaves, droughts, floods, and fires have drastically reduced global olive oil production levels. Coupled with high prices for energy and labor, this has driven prices to record...