The Euro

Culture Still Matters

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Last week I led a military-history tour on the Rhine River from Basel, Switzerland, to Amsterdam. You can learn a lot about Europe’s current economic crises by ignoring the sophisticated barrage of news analysis and instead just watching, listening, and talking to people as you go down river. …

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Greek Tragedies

br Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner There are a lot of new twists to the old story of massive demonstrations in Greece. This is the first time in my life (I first went to Greece in 1973) that I can remember Greek rioting and demonstrations that were not anti-American. Share This

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Which Way Greece?

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner One question that rarely arises about Greece is “where did all those hundreds of billions of Euros really go?” I think most visitors could easily answer that they were not all squandered on pensions and inflated government staffs and salaries. Share This

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Civilization in Reverse

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored. Our modern version is a bankrupt Greece that we seem to discount. Share This

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The End of the Euro?

Good riddance to a bad idea. by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas The champions of the European Union once touted it as a “bold new experiment in living” and “the best hope in an insecure age.” Share This

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