[Yanis Varoufakis] Athenian view of US democracy

On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need to resist my usual penchant for economic and geopolitical analyses of claims made for or against the United States.

Instead, I surrendered to an emotional, personal, indeed an Athenian, take on the global hegemon whose development and actions have shaped us all.

My earliest memory of America as a factor in my life harks back to a hot afternoon in early June 1968.

A little more than a year after a CIA-backed coup had placed Gree ...