http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/01/america-as-greece/ A First Things Blog Tue, 21 May 2013 18:28:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/01/america-as-greece/comment-page-1/#comment-23405 Chuck Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:57:04 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=20898#comment-23405 Ron Johnson can afford to say such things. He has about as much chance of being elected as a moose has of surviving in the same room with Sarah Palin.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/01/america-as-greece/comment-page-1/#comment-23368 Victor Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:29:44 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=20898#comment-23368 From what I read, Oedipus and Tiresias appear to have their own problems so I can’t see how they could ever hope to master head any body’s economic situation?

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/01/america-as-greece/comment-page-1/#comment-23346 pentamom Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:03:15 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=20898#comment-23346 Or to put it another way, it was inevitable because of who Oedipus was. And I suspect boneheaded, counterproductive responses to our economic situation are inevitable because of who we’ve become, as a people.

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