Opinion
Hubris from the US and Iran is putting the world one mistake away from a return to war, writes Marc Champion
The Risk of the Iran War Restarting Is Irrationally High
The ancient Athenians didn’t really have a word for sin. They had one for error, hamartia, and they of course coined hubris — an offense of pride against the Gods, or somebody else’s honor, that was punishable as a crime. These two terms offer an increasingly useful framework for what’s happening between the US and Iran and why the risk of return to war is irrationally high.
