Americans might be puzzled as to why an autocratic strongman holds such appeal with voters. But it’s a story India has seen a ...

The idea that democracy is in crisis is nothing new; ancient Greek commentators like Plato and Thucydides argued that political instability was baked into democracy as a regime type. Can examples ...

The Rev. David Peck is an Episcopal priest in the heartland of Pennsylvania, a swing state at the center of the tense ...

Christianity is often viewed as an alternative to Roman religion. But in many ways, Christianity was an expression of Roman ...

Nero, who ruled from A.D. 54 to 68, is often remembered as one of history’s most notorious emperors, his reputation steeped ...

Canoeing is a beautiful and reflective pastime. It allows one to forget human concerns and focus on nature: Sunlight shining on water dripping off a paddle; the river gurgling and singing as it ...

To make a serious comparison between Confucianism and ancient Greek philosophy, one must look further back, to the many ...

As of then, Indian civilization’s antiquity had been traced up to the 3rd century BCE – in Mauryan Buddhist Emperor Asoka’s ...

More than a decade ago, archaeologists began to excavate one of the world’s oldest Christian churches in the middle of a ...

Scholars have identified interesting parallels between the military alliances of NATO and the ancient Athenian-led Delian League.

Ma, the Met curator, was introduced to the artist in 2010, but she had admired her calligraphy since childhood. “I grew up in Taipei, and I remember that we had a catalog of hers,” Ma recalled. “At ...

Edward Watts is a historian at the University of California San Diego and the author of two books on ancient Rome ... have violence injected into our political life. I had no idea that within ...