In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

I vote and I do jury duty.

A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.