Open Letter To Yanis Varoufakis
Yanis Varoufakis, Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance of the Hellenic Republic, Dear Mr. Varoufakis, Congratulations on your referendum win as your nation enters one of the most difficult …
Ezra Klein unwittingly endorses a conservative agenda [Reader Post]
Ezra Klein is a blogger/columnist for the Washington Post and an unabashed liberal. Klein has the good fortune of never having had to work a real day in his life. He is younger than my oldest son and hasn’t half my son’s brains. Klein is widely quoted by the left and he regularly pontificates broadly on a wide range of subjects with which he has neither familiarity nor experience.
In a recent column, Klein made an astonishing assertion:
America’s Coming Greek Tragedy [Reader Post]
Characteristically, the protagonist in Greek tragedies fell victim to hubris. Ajax, Oedipus and Orestes all shared such a fate. One day, bards will add Barack Obama to that list.
Greece is in the throes of economic death. An era of obscene pensions and spending profligacy has left the country at war with itself.