The week before last, the Guardian advertised a package tour of crisis-stricken Greece. Interested parties could, for a significant price, visit refugees, NGOs and Greeks afflicted by the crisis; they…
“Battered for a decade, Greece feels an unexpected whiff of revival as Europe gains strength … It’s nearly springtime in Athens: Street trees are heavy with citrus, wildflowers are erupting…
The fundamental ethical principle of ThePressProject was extraordinarily simple, almost self-evident: if you don’t pay for the news, someone else will—someone who doesn’t have your best interests in mind. The…
In 1972, Jerry Lewis directed a movie about a clown who finds himself imprisoned in Auschwitz after being arrested by the Gestapo for drunkenly mocking Hitler. In the camp, he…
Lots of distress and worry has been vocalized lately "exclusively for refugees," as if immigrants were putting their lives in danger just for kicks. As if people need gunshot wounds…
Annie Hall: Sometimes I ask myself how I΄d stand up under torture. Alvy Singer: You? You kiddin΄? If the Gestapo would take away your Bloomingdale΄s charge card, you΄d tell ΄em…
“Gnosi” publications published a really nice series of philosophical books edited by Panagiotis Kondylis; there was one about Chinese thinking among them. The most impressive element in this book was…
Force, fraud, and the jeering indignant in Greece