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

Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for Greece and the world.

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

The oligarchy predicament is so old that Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher, offered significant insights into the nature of oligarchies in his classic work, "Politics." He categorized various ...

A group of National Trust members has been prevented from attempting to debate the charity's "debate-stifling" voting system ...

So, ‘al-amana’ or the ‘trust’ which the universe trembled to bear, according to late Islamic scholar and thinker Fazlur ...

And his first task is a steep one: deprogramming all of us from what he calls the "blind techno-optimism" espoused by the "modern oligarchy ... way back to the Ancient Greeks and Romans.

One ancient practice leading to another ... The economies of Greece and Rome and their political heirs in Western Europe were all about creating a financial oligarchy and sanctifying debts instead of ...

The democracies of ancient Israel, Greece, and Rome ... an aristocracy that has taken over the people’s Congress, an oligarchy that has taken over the people’s Supreme Court, and an autocracy ...

A survey of Greek history from Homer to the Hellenistic period, based primarily on a close reading of ancient sources in translation ... and yet one was a democracy (Athens), the other an oligarchy ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...