Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, refined through centuries of revolution and philosophical debate, and now ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann The ...

In America today, an impeached former leader, whose lies threaten the very structure of democracy, is maneuvering to return to power. This has happened before, with dire consequences. In ancient ...

In December the Supreme Court in the American state of Colorado held that former President Donald Trump was constitutionally ineligible to run for election again due to the Fourteenth Amendment’s ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...

Host Mitch Jeserich talks about how democracy was born out of a class struggle between the aristocrats and the poor masses in ancient Athens. This episode covers part 2 of the 3 part telling of the ...

No one should base ideas of democratic reform on the belief that ancient Athenian “democracy” was an ideal form of government (5 October, p 32). Athens hardly invented democracy: there were very large ...