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

A drumbeat of hard realities echoed through the halls at this year’s Athens Democracy Forum, where participants noted trends that do not portend well for the form of governance. By Serge Schmemann The ...

What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship by Loren J. Samons II California, 327 pp., $27.50 It's easy to make fun of classicists these days. Here is another article in a ...

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 ...

Continuing concern for our democratic republic has left me again looking back at the world’s first democracy in Athens. Athen ...

In his Bryn Mawr Classical Review of Jessica Paga’s book “The Construction of the Athenian Democracy,” Roy van Wijk, SNFS of Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, states, “A subtitle for Paga’s ...