Greek Crisis, Greek Resilience

Greece is once again at a crossroads, being at the very center of the world’s attention and facing unprecedented scrutiny. Oddly, this situation fits well with the national self-understanding that accords our country (not entirely unjustly) an outsize role in European intellectual and political history. But the fact remains that Greek society has entered a liminal period in which political parties, economic practices and diplomatic certainties will slowly be overturned.