Mudslinging instead of much-needed catharsis

As it heads toward the end of the eight-year bailout era, Greece again finds itself at risk of political instability. It is not just reactions to the name talks with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, which the government is right to want settled as soon as possible (if this is indeed its intention), or escalating tension with an increasingly unpredictable Turkey (a real, not imagined threat) that has been incited further by the Greek defense minister's machismo; we now also have the political maelstrom of the Novartis affair - when in top form, political cynicism likes to pose as political catharsis.

Leftist SYRIZA is not some pure political body that can claim the role of ethical prosecutor. It has a record of interventions in the justice system, media manipulation and, of course, the blatant deception of 2015 (which cost the country some 85 to 100 billion euros, if...