Democrats and Republicans don’t know the first thing about democracy. In fact, they don’t know the second or third things ...

Democrats and Republicans don’t act like they know the first thing about democracy. In fact, the second or third things either.

A year after their defeat of Athens in 404 BC, the Spartans allowed the Athenians to replace the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democracy. The tyranny had been a terrible and bloody ...

They formed a popular assembly of their own and planned to sail from their base off the coast of Turkey at Samos to re-establish democracy at Athens. However, Alcibiades, an unlikely champion ...