The message of Justice Breyer's book is that the court jeopardizes its legitimacy when it makes such radical rulings and that, in doing so, it threatens our democracy.
Tsipras faced a revolt over the reforms from his radical-left ruling Syriza party, which came to power in January on anti-austerity promises.
For the present, radical left parties ruling towns or small countries have tended to rest content with doing one big thing: usually defending existing public sector institutions.
"In portentous terms," Mr. Oren writes, "the Soviet leaders informed Sadat of an imminent Israeli invasion of Syria aimed at toppling the Baath" -- the ruling radical Socialist party.
Somalia is in the midst of a relentless civil war, and the current government controls only a small part of the capital, with radical Islamist insurgents ruling much of the rest of the country.
With its majority in both Houses of Congress expanded by yet another crop of radical freshmen, the ruling party appeared poised to achieve the last remaining items on its agenda and consign the opposition to oblivion.
But when it happens here, what we're told by the entire power structure of American life both houses of Congress, the White House, and now the Supreme Court, locked and loaded to sustain the absurd and radical pro-gun ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller is that there is nothing at all to be done, save to pray.
Six officials from the left-leaning Frepaso party, which is a junior player to Mr de la Rua's centrist Radicals in the ruling Alliance government resign in protest at the cuts.
The first casualty of this war has been veracity, for what Greeks, and indeed everyone outside Greece, have been subjected to for the past six months is a battle of impressions waged by the masterful propaganda machine of the ruling radical-left Syriza party.
