MAGA at the Acropolis
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised ancient Greece as the foundation of Western civilization during a visit to Athens.
- Rubio delivered his speech at the Pnyx, a site associated with the early practice of democracy.
- The speech connected the MAGA movement’s ideas with Athenian democracy, Christendom, discoveries, and imperial conquests.
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Marco Rubio Delivers a Scathing Indictment of the Administration in Which He Serves
Speech in Greece State Department Video Austin Sarat ScheerPost On October 7, Secretary of State Marco Rubio used the occasion of a visit to Greece to deliver an elaborately staged speech about the virtues of and threats to Western Civilization. Sadly, many of the virtues he praised are under attack by the administration in which…
Athens, Jerusalem, and the Western Soul
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…
The Priceless Gift Marco Rubio Just Gave To The Next Generation Of Americans
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke in Athens on October 7, his oratory caused many of us to reflect on a question worth asking: what came before us, and what do we owe it? Rubio called on Americans and Europeans to renew the Western spirit, an inheritance he traced from Athens and Rome through Christendom to the founding of the American Republic. I have been asking that question with a group of students at Colorado Christian University, w…
The West has many problems and faces countless challenges, but MAGA's reactionary Prometheanism is another threat to its survival, not the solution. The post Marco Rubio on the Acropolis: What West is MAGA defending, exactly? first appeared on Political Critique.
Guest Opinion: Why Europe just can't quit the US
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, standing in front of the Parthenon, declared that the Trump administration sought to partner with Europe in defending the “distinct character” of Western civilization. It was meant, perhaps, as an exhortation.
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