Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and ...

Today's current affairs seem so mirrored in the past; the great events of long, long ago seem so similar to what’s happening today. Not events ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

While liberal democracy emphasizes individual rights, adversarial politics and universalist principles, India’s philosophical ...

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

We might preserve democracy by nurturing the political skills of everyone, to make the best use of their talents and experiences This might be surprising, given that Westerners typically think that it ...