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In high school, I was particularly fond of a serious and attentive Latin teacher who never seemed disturbed by my reluctance to speak during class. Once, on the first day back to school after a break, ...

It is said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, this seems to be the case with respect to the Puerto Rican government and its Oversight Board in their handling of ...

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 ...

In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober - a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy - argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that could be ...

From European social democrats supporting imperialist slaughter in World War One, to the French Communist Party winding down the General Strike in 1968, to the Communist Party in the US pushing labor ...

Greek Lessons feels like a departure from Han Kang's other English-translated novels; tugging bit by bit at the heartstrings, readers are left... Few literary books this year are as highly anticipated ...

In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober – a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy – argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that could be ...