Plato described tyranny as the most disordered constitution in both cities and psyches. His ancient diagnostic tools still ...

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides a timeless insight into how we are often "prisoners" of our mind, in that we are born into a world of "shadows", which we confuse with reality. Wisdom ...

Three Olympic athletes showed patterns of self-governance that Plato once described, which also show up in everyday life.

Ayatollah Khomeini’s bait-and-switch game in the early years of the Islamic regime turned many of the people against it. They ...

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...

President Trump's ban on colleges “inculcating gender ideology" doesn't define inculcate or ideology, so it leads to some ...

Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into ‘reading for pleasure’, asks Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer ...

Trump's attack on Iran is an act of vanity and desperation, fueled by America's collective moral blindness ...

How does art represent the world and influence the people who observe it? Artists and philosophers have thought about these ...

The concept of seizing or killing national leaders and attacking nations without a clear and present danger was supposed to have been put to rest with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.

Philosophers who were disciples of Socrates worried about the moral and political habits encouraged by maritime life and access to the sea. Trade, mobility, and empire shaped character and transformed ...

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...