The Chronicle of Higher Education

Lessons in Ancient Greek

When Harry Richter, age 8, was picking a second language to learn, he went for the obvious choice: ancient Greek. “It’s just the first thing that popped into my head,” says Harry, a second-grade ...
Forbes

The Greek Lesson: Never Underestimate The Ability Of Politicians To Screw Up

As we survey the bombed out rubble of the Greek economy this morning we should consider the major lesson of it to us all: We should never underestimate the ability of politicians to entirely screw up ...
American Enterprise Institute

Greek Economic Lessons for Portugal

As Athens burns after two years under an International Monetary Fund (IMF) – European Union (EU) adjustment program, one has to hope that Lisbon is paying attention to the Greek drama. Since, in order ...
American Enterprise Institute

Greek Lessons for the IMF

With Greece now well on its way to exiting the euro, it is not too early to draw lessons for the International Monetary Fun (IMF) from its unfortunate Greek lending program. Since never before has the ...
Neos Kosmos

Greek beyond the classroom

Eleni Dimitriou is a philologist and the Coordinator of the “Greek at a Distance” program of the Greek Community of Melbourne ...
East Asia Forum

Greek lessons for India

What is at the heart of the Greek crisis? What are the important lessons for India? Based on a fairly close reading of the international press, it has been surprisingly hard to answer the first of ...