Greek Drama Comes to U.S. Politics - Beware the Hubris

Rubio’s Athens Speech Shows What American Schools Forgot

Rubio's Athens speech highlights the decline of traditional history education in American schools.

A Western Civ Speech Only A Neocon Could Love

When one of my acquaintances expressed his enthusiasm for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7 speech from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece—seeing it as the de facto launching of a presidential campaign—I thought to watch the talk in its entirety. It was worth the viewing, if only for the craftsmanship involved. It was set in […]

What Rubio's Athens speech left out

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s thoughtful and inspiring speech delivered at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, deserves to be remembered for a long time to come, especially in an age increasingly dominated by ideological slogans and short attention spans. The speech combines impressive erudition and soaring rhetoric with an astute, if inevitably controversial, analysis of the contemporary international scene. More fundamentally, it seeks to come…

Greek Drama Comes to U.S. Politics - Beware the Hubris

Greece has been making headlines in the U.S. political scene of late. On the one hand, Secretary of State Marco Rubio looked especially statesmanly on the Pnyx, delivering a seminal speech about the West rediscovering its identity and the need to return to its classical Greek ideological pillars, with the Acropolis in the backdrop. The setting and content of the speech were quite impressive, leading many to label it a launching pad for a 2028 pr…

Marco Rubio’s Greek Panegyric / Celebration: Political Theory and Praxis

PHOTO: Restored Parthenon, 2025. Photo: Mark Andreas Vallianatos. By Evaggelos Vallianatos Prologue Translating the ideals of Greek history, politics, democracy, theater, athletics, the Delphi peace vision, philosophy, science, technology, justice and the idea of the good and the beautiful for America demands another American Revolution. Of course, that was not the intent of US Secretary […]