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"The coup that shattered Democracy in Greece"
Story at neoskosmos [Greek]
"Critical thinking without partisan dogma"
Story at Kathimerini [Greek]
Dimitris Raftopoulos and how he "never grew a beard or mustache."
Vaguely related: "Propaganda or opinion?" – Considering what is a "troll" for a group and what is pure propaganda - Story at Kathimerini [Greek]
"Forces shaping modern Greece" June 1973
PDFs at MGSA
'The Greek Civil War in Fiction and Testimony: The Mission Box and The Double Book’, Ankara University, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, 50/ 2: 177-191, 2010.
Was Aris Alexandrou an anarchist?
Story at Kathimerini [Greek]
The astonishing, as well as heartbreaking, "The Ark" is considered by almost everyone (in my estimation, rightly so) as the most important modern Greek novel."
The tortured life of Aris Alexandrou, his titanic struggle to harmonize his life and work according to his moral principles, the isolation he experienced as he rejected both capitalism and communism, both the “Nation” and the “Party”, both the army and all political orthodoxy, were exemplarily recorded in the fundamental biographical book by (his friend and collaborator) essayist Dimitris Raftopoulos “Aris Alexandrou: the Exile” (Themelio, 1996). This book was widely read and repositioned A.A. at the forefront of a new reflective discussion about what is and is not “Left”. And there are not a few liberal intellectuals who, excited by Alexander's fiery anti-Marxism and anti-communism (especially as expressed in "The Ark"), saw in him a thinker-writer who, even if only centrifugally, fits into the liberal tradition. A few years ago, a new proposal was released – this time for the inclusion of Alexander in the anarchist tradition.