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Can a Greek Monastery Be Ground Zero of Global Financial Meltdown?

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…nister of Finance was forced to conclude in exasperation “that it would be cheaper and more efficient to put all of Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs.” The public schools operate with surprising inefficiency, with students scoring the lowest numbers in Europe despite having four times as many teachers as Europe’s highest ranked system, in Finland. There are there separate government owned defense corporations. As for Greek health care, it is…

Greece Must Suffer for Redemption: A Nietzschean Reading

By Stephanie Frank

…it was not simply about consolidating power; it was also designed to make Greece suffer. That is, owing to the psychology of debt, Greece’s pain is not a byproduct, but a requirement. For Nietzsche, civilization is built on our ability to make and keep promises. Angela Merkel’s comments following on the final European proposal revealed a subtext of anger at broken promises: she used the language of ‘trust.’ After the referendum, she lamented, “Th…

SCOTUS Tackles Government Prayer in Greece v. Galloway

By Becky Garrison

…lishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. AU argues that Greece is different for several reasons, according to Boston: One, the prayers are sectarian. Two, it’s local government. In a statehouse or in U.S. Congress, the prayers are directed at the lawmakers. Legislators appoint chaplains, but the prayers tend to be non-sectarian. Legislators don’t have to be present. In Greece, they are broadcast out toward the community. The cr…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…young couple probably on a date. She looked bored. This is not the end of Turkish democracy. Don’t underestimate the Turks. They contributed to one of the world’s most powerful empires ever. “But the Ottomans had become too corrupt,” a Turkish-American academic told me, right after we walked out of a mosque. “They had to die.” He had little love for Ataturk, though, whose nationalism had divided people against each other and destroyed the cosmopo…

An Open Letter to CEO Jeff Smisek On United Airlines’ Blasphemous Safety Video

By Austin Dacey

…ual recompense. In the video message that was played before my last United Airlines flight, you expressed your desire to greet each and every passenger; you invited us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight. If I could greet you now, I would want to know: were you unaware of the monstrosity that was about to follow? There, rising above the hiss of the pressurized air, as the video monitors snapped to the image of an engorged sun bursting from be…

Public Prayer Verdict Shows Its True Colors

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…elopment has me eating my words. In response to an apparently overwhelming number amount of requests by atheists to give invocations, the Town of Greece has recently changed their SCOTUS-approved policy to one that requires invocation-givers to be members of “assemblies with an established presence in the Town of Greece that regularly meet for the primary purpose of sharing a religious perspective.” The standard of “established presence” is alread…

Americans United To Launch “Operation Inclusion” After SCOTUS Prayer Decision

By Sarah Posner

…ials are, post-Greece, revisiting their policy of non-sectarian prayer, which resulted from a settlement of a lawsuit brought by AU, challenging their practice of reciting the Lord’s Prayer to open meetings. Samuel Wilson, a Republican County Council member, told the News Journal that the Greecedecision “was good news. It might not be for the atheist but it is for the believer.” “Some people are getting the idea that the Greece decision creates a…

Turkish ‘Lord of the Rings’ Has God, Guts, Girls, and Glory

By Haroon Moghul

…into the obsessive quest of the young Ottoman Sultan Mehmet (Muhammad, in Turkish pronunciation), desperately trying to conquer Constantinople and make a name for himself. The great battle in April and May 1453 may well be the pivotal moment in Ottoman history, and lends itself well to loud, pounding, bloody, overwhelming action. As the world gets more global, one upside is: We have more stories we can transform into blockbusters. Or ruin. Fetih…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

God’s Amicus Curiae on Town of Greece v. Galloway SCOTUS Case

By Peter Laarman

…ogue upon learning that Obama’s Solicitor General has sided with the town: Greece, New York? Oh, right: Those guys have been asking me to show up for their council meetings for a long time. I tried to go once, but it’s really hard to pay attention. Nobody ever watches the meetings on public access TV, so why should I have to sit through them? Snow removal budgets, a new contract for the sanitation guys, that sort of thing. I do remember from that…