The principles of the Athenian democracy, including citizen participation, equality and free speech, are still what we need ...

Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

A growing economy, it was thought, would go hand-in-hand with a liberalising political system ... to displace an established power. In the ancient Greek world, it was Athens that threatened ...

The late István Mészáros analyzes political theories from the ancient Greek philosophers forward in Beyond Leviathan: ...

To make a serious comparison between Confucianism and ancient Greek philosophy, one must look further back, to the many ...

As Americans go to the polls Tuesday, the U.S. presidential standard bearers describe a nation whose very soul hangs in the ...

Can the rise of a different kind of democracy help us to ease the collective feeling of Democratic Fatigue Syndrome?

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill takes on the intersection of faith and politics, from the biblical Roman ...

How did ancient people translate other languages? Knowing more than one language has been beneficial throughout time.

When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they were learning from history that democracy was likely ...

Dieting has existed for centuries, at least since Ancient Greece, where dieting emerged as a holistic ... addressing the social, political, and economic systems that create barriers for fat people.

In both government and culture, therefore, Poland is based on the ancient Greek system as outlined by classical philosophers. The humorous Polish phrase ‘nie udawaj Greka’ means 'don’t act stupid', ...