Growing up my summers were spent with my grandparents in a small coastal town in the southwest of Greece called Theologos. I loved these… — Growing up my summers were spent with my grandparents in a small coastal town in the southwest of Greece called Theologos. I loved these trips because they were one of the few constants of my childhood; every few years I found myself settling into a new town or school or…

Image courtesy of Vasco Gargalo Cartooning. — Image courtesy of Vasco Gargalo Cartooning. June 16, 2015, the day Donald Trump made his formal announcement of his plans to run for president of the United States of America. A 70-year-old man, with no prior legal or political education, with a series of dubious business ventures of varying degrees…

Scholarship is a virtue that is essential to the prodigal Einstein, the champion Williams, or world-renowned Picasso. The same scholarship… — Scholarship is a virtue that is essential to the prodigal Einstein, the champion Williams, or world-renowned Picasso. The same scholarship and character that inspired Spielberg’s films, wrote Marquez’s epics and painted Da Vinci’s, Mona Lisa. In modern academia, the sense of scholarship has become largely transactional, where one student is…