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

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”.

Ancient philosopher Plato may have an answer to why only those skilled in statecraft should rule the unskilled COMMENT | ...

A lifelong lover of all things political theory, Schlosser’s passion for intellectual inquiry took him to Carleton College ...

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

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy -- and, it turns out, lead ...

This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, ...

There is a perceptible Roman bias in the teaching of law, but the ancient Greeks were actually also quite influential.