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

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany ...

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”.

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

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

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 ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

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

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

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