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 ...

emocracy is under threat around the world, but not because dictators are overthrowing elected governments and seizing power.

Democracy is under threat around the world, but not because dictators are overthrowing elected governments and seizing power.

Yet Plato without Athens is like Dickens without London. Plato lived and died an Athenian. The “common thread” in his work, Ms. Atack writes, is his commemoration of the life and unjust death ...

Greek lawmakers elected the country’s new president in a fourth round of voting.

The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher Socrates, his teacher and mentor. But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers on Wednesday elected ... A lawyer by trade, Tassoulas is also a member of the governing ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

A few days before the legislative elections in Germany, in which the far-right AfD party is polling strongly, leaders of the ...

ATHENS, Greece — Greek lawmakers on Wednesday ... A lawyer by trade, Tassoulas is also a member of the governing center-right New Democracy party and served as culture minister a decade ago ...

The campaign was a disaster. Plato means Athens, and Athens means democracy, but Plato was no democrat. The “manipulation of demotic pseudo-knowledge,” Ms. Atack writes, encouraged political ...