On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment. America may be still a constitutional republic in name, but recently it has operated more as an unchecked Athenian-style democracy. Americans may ...

Few ideas have shaped the world more profoundly than democracy. It is a concept born in the dust of ancient city-states, ...

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 ...