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Male figurine, pottery, c. 7,000–5,000 years ago, Greece, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Past Is Another Country

Peter Frost • August 15, 2015

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This is one of several findings with a common theme: the farther back in time we go, the less familiar people look. And we don't have to go very far. This fact came up in a column I wrote about the Americas. If we turn back the clock, Amerindians look more and more European, yet... Read More

Neocons, Libertarians, and Economists - Misdreavus on These Mixed Nuts

JayMan • June 19, 2014

• 100 Words • 11 Comments • Reply

I'll let the tweets speak for themselves:

How Inbred Are Europeans?

JayMan • September 7, 2013

• 2,400 Words • 54 Comments • Reply

HBD Chick and I talk about how rates of historic inbreeding have had an important impact on the selective pressures acting on the traits of various peoples living today. We have often used Europe and the Middle East as examples of this, because strong regional variations in historic rates of inbreeding exist in those places.... Read More

Greece at the Crossroads

Peter Frost • June 30, 2012

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The Greek government's debt became unmanageable after autumn 2008, but the EU didn’t respond until over a year and a half later. (source) In the post-national Greece that developed after 1974, the clear winners were the middle class. Thanks to the strong purchasing power of other European currencies, and later the Euro, they could travel... Read More

Electing a New People?

Peter Frost • June 23, 2012

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Immigrants in the port of Patras, Greece (source). An immigrant community as large as three million people, in a country of eleven million. It was during the early 1970s—the time of the Colonels—that Greece began to receive large numbers of immigrants, mainly Africans recruited for insecure low-paying jobs in construction, agriculture, and shipping. In 1972,... Read More

Post-1974: Deconstructing Greece

Peter Frost • June 16, 2012

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Poster for multi-child families. Today, the average Greek woman has only 1.3 children. Although the Colonels failed to turn back the clock, they did slow it down. When they lost power, Greece was still fulfilling its mission of perpetuating the Greek people. In 1975, the fertility rate was 2.4 children per woman, in contrast to... Read More

The Colonels: How Not to Turn Back the Clock

Peter Frost • June 9, 2012

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The Colonels ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. They tried to turn back the clock without knowing how a clock works (source). In Greece, nation-building revolutionized social relations. It created a much larger web of reciprocal relationships among people who were not close kin and who often never met each other. This new environment was... Read More

Greece's Finest Hour ... and After

Peter Frost • June 2, 2012

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American editorial cartoon from 1940 (source). Today, Greeks remember Ioannis Metaxas for his defense of Greece from Italian invasion in 1940. Few remember his refusal to enter the broader conflict of World War II. His death marked the end of his country’s isolationism and the start of its gradual absorption into larger supranational entities: NATO,... Read More

Constructing the Greek State - Part 2

Peter Frost • May 26, 2012

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The Ioannis Metaxas regime (1936–1941) was the high-water mark of Greek nationalism. It sought to create an emotional bond between Greeks and their nation that they had previously felt only for their families and immediate kin. In this, Metaxas was trying to replicate a process of nation-building that had happened over a much longer time... Read More

The Greek Debt Crisis - Part 1

Peter Frost • May 19, 2012

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In early 1989, Poland legalized Solidarnosc as a political party and Hungary announced that it would become a multi-party state. These two moves set off a domino effect that spread throughout the entire Eastern bloc. (source) The debt crisis that is today crippling Greece strangely resembles the one that overwhelmed Eastern Europe back in the... Read More

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