"I can't believe we are still talking about Greece after all this time", said Katty Kay, on a recent nightly newscast. A BBC America presenter, Kay did not mean "after all these 3400 years" but rather after a year and a half of the current Greek debt crisis. I winced....

It was all fine until we got to Euclid. Plato, Thucydides, Augustine, Nietzsche -- I got them. But now comes Euclid. The woman seated next to me in the class said she was about to go to her 50th high school reunion and she did have doubts about doing a...