Leadership can look appealing from a distance, but taking responsibility for other people’s decisions, work or wellbeing is ...

Archaeologists uncover the Esplanada mass grave in Greece, revealing shocking insights about executed locals and organized violence preceding democracy.

The 2,600-year-old burial dates back to a time period when Athens was grappling with the beginnings of its democracy.

Landowner Dominic Tye said the six foot, eight inch fence is required to protect the remains of a 460-year-old iron forge. The ‘Lower or Abbey Wireworks, in Tintern, was the first water-powered wire ...

GT: You wrote in the book, "Political theory in the Anglophone world is still too West-centric. [T]here's this image in much ...

Scholars for a long time have touted ancient Rome and neighboring Athens as the twin birthplaces of democracy. Both very ...

You wake up and brace yourself for the barrage of toxic gibberish that constitutes the modern public sphere. Your e-mail is overrun with spam, scams, and smut. There are voice mails from no one about ...

Around seven-in-ten U.S. adults (69%) say they are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in their country. This share is higher than in most other high-income countries surveyed by Pew ...

When Professor Danielle Allen was an undergraduate, she participated in an archeological dig in Athens, Greece. There in the Agora, she uncovered a pot shard with a name written on it “Father of ...

A journal called Liberal Currents recently invited me to contribute to a scholarly symposium on what the editor, Adam Gurri, described as “how we can move to a new, stable democratic regime after ...

Most of us learned a simple version of history: democracy began in ancient Athens, took shape in Republican Rome, and everywhere else was ruled by kings or strongmen. But that story may be too narrow.