Eve Geroulis
Hope Amidst the Storm
In November 2008, a financial crisis that began with mortgage defaults in America would quickly ravage Greece. President Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel's,...
The Death of Demos
Having just returned from Greece, I settled in to watch the second U.S. presidential debate over the tsipouro and kefalogravera I smuggled in my...
Brexit’s Town vs. Country
A stunned world is asking how Britain could vote for angry nationalism over pragmatic internationalism. How could the once mighty British Empire be transformed...
Salting Greece
Historians claim that when Scipio sacked Carthage in 146 BC, he salted the earth to guarantee nothing would ever grow on Carthaginian soil. To...
From Ataturk to Venizelos
MYTILENE, Greece – Crossing the Bosporus from Istanbul to Athens with a university colleague – one the daughter of Turkish immigrants, the other the...
2016 | Annus Horribilis
If you didn’t already have enough to be nervous about, just consider the early hours of 2016. January 1 brought above freezing temperatures to Antarctica,...
It Was Once My Mother
Watching the clash of civilizations sweeping across Europe with Sophoclean fury is unbearable for anyone with a shred of humanity left in them. Whether...
Opinion: #ThisIsNeoliberalism
A Greek prince of the left, channeling Odysseus and an Australian mystic, took arms against the Brussels Fight Club, crusading for his nation’s very...
OXI to NAI. NAI to OXI. OXI to OXI.
With Greece’s doomsday clock ticking closer and closer to midnight, even the reports that Germany’s acerbic Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has conceded Greek debt...
Varoufakis Exit Stage Left. Lew Enter Stage Right.
This year's 4th of July holiday coincided with Greece’s referendum. As an American by birth and Greek by blood, I honor America’s victory over taxation without...
Kalo Mena Greece
On the first day of each month, Greeks greet each other with the salutation Kalo Mena, loosely translated as “Have a Good Month.” This first day of July 2015 promises to bring very little good for Greece.
When You’ve Got Nothing (or Everything) to Lose
Greece knows it. The EU knows it. Hell, we all know it wouldn’t work. This extend-and-pretend strategy of unending bailouts. No matter what emerges over...