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

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 ...

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 ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

Host Mitch Jeserich recounts the story of how the decline and destruction of he Ancient Athenian Democracy happened. Included in this episode are such stories of how the Athenian Democracy turned into ...

Democracy is often celebrated as the highest form of governance . Yet more than 2,400 years ago, the Greek philosopher ...

Democracy in America has become a kind of “doctrine that few dare to challenge openly in any serious or fundamental way,” writes Loren J. Samons II, an associate professor of classics at Boston ...