If you want to know something about America, look to Greece.
Marco Rubio’s speech last week in front of the Acropolis reminded conservatives one cannot conserve anything meaningful without remembrance and tradition. When conservatives forget, they become something other than conservatives.
“Athens gave us democracy,” the secretary of state reminded those gathered. “Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy. Our ideas of law, of virtue, of citizenship, and republican government were shaped in the Greek city-states. Even much of our political vocabulary — words like democracy, tyranny, the word ‘politics’ itself — found its origins here.”
Rubio pointed out that The Federalist Papers cited Plutarch more than any other author, the very city where the ...