hellenes without borders

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  Who Speaks for the Diaspora Greeks?

  Greeks are a very individualistic lot. We often quarrel, and tend not to like...

  • Posted July 3, 2021
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  Talkin’ About the Revolution

  What good is it to talk about ourselves—to ourselves? I am paraphrasing the words...

  • Posted April 30, 2021
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  The Greek Revolution: A Victory for Human Agency but an Unfinished One

  Inequalities and inequities have existed throughout history, almost as certain to the human condition...

  • Posted March 23, 2021
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  Silent Partners to Empire: The Greeks and Serbs who helped build the Austrian and Russian Empires

  History favors the headlines rather than the fine print. Not unlike social media today,...

  • Posted December 13, 2020
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  Sister Cities – The Next Step in Greek-American Relations?

  Sister Cities (or Town-Twinning) Programs are an excellent and innovative way to build local-to-local...

  • Posted October 10, 2020
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  Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe: Patriot of Two Nations

  Revolutions are often exported. There is no question that the effects of the American...

  • Posted June 23, 2020
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  Pammachon: A Martial Art and Ethos with Roots in Hellenism

  On March 25, this year, as every year, Greeks in Greece and around the...

  • Posted April 13, 2020
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  Nicholas Benachi, Founder of the First Orthodox Church in the US

  On many occasions in this magazine I have focused on Greek communities in the...

  • Posted February 17, 2020
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  Samos, Where Geography is Destiny

  As the Bicentennial of Greece’s War of Independence approaches, in 2021, I will be...

  • Posted January 13, 2020
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  The World Wide Greek Commercial Web, circa 1815

  WWW of course means something completely different in our digital internet-ubiquitous era. “Web” prior...

  • Posted December 8, 2019
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  The “Case” for AHEPA

  The recent election of New Democracy’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Greece has been greeted with...

  • Posted October 18, 2019
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  Kehila Kedosha Janina and a Chat with Marcia!

  Russel Shorto, a premier historian of New York, calls Manhattan the “Island at the...

  • Posted July 12, 2019
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  A Grandson’s Visit: Ano Kastania

  While we lived in Greece, a source of succor from the daily reality of...

  • Posted April 25, 2019
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  The Importance of Being Hydra

  We Hydriots are seldom lacking in pride for our island. It is, after all,...

  • Posted March 13, 2019
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  The Battle of the Atlantic: The Gruesome Tale the Numbers Tell of Triumph and Tragedy

  I have always been a textual type. I am a writer, a lawyer, and...

  • Posted January 2, 2019
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  “Uncle Nick” of Greenville

  I met him through my son. We had just moved to Clemson, South Carolina...

  • Posted December 2, 2018
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  Maritime Shift

  I have been writing in this column at Neo Magazine for nearly nine years...

  • Posted October 16, 2018
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  How to Talk to your Kids about Byzantium

  A rather odd title to an article, but the reader familiar with my work...

  • Posted June 22, 2018
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  In Confronting Turkey, History is on our Side, but Historical Lesson is from 1938, not from the Ancient Past

  Another Greek Independence Day has come and gone. It’s a time for parades, poems,...

  • Posted April 14, 2018
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  The Brothers Macedonian

  A centuries-old conflict in a region known for discord has returned, once again, to...

  • Posted March 11, 2018
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  Stamps of My History

  Moving is never easy. It is a loss of nerves, and in my case,...

  • Posted January 14, 2018
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  The Case for Cultural Literacy

  On Sunday, October 29, 2017 I had the singular pleasure of addressing members of...

  • Posted December 14, 2017
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  Could Greece become the Linchpin of a Balkan-East Mediterranean Alliance?

  Even in asking the question, I feel a wave of doubt and skepticism. The...

  • Posted July 11, 2017
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  Nostalgia for My Favorite Athens

  I am not the greatest fan of Athens.  Having lived and worked there for...

  • Posted April 22, 2017
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  A Letter to Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Quick

  Dear Readers, please forgive the digression from my normal column “Hellenes without Borders” wherein...

  • Posted March 17, 2017
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