Plato reveals how imitation in art and media can imprison the modern soul in shadows far removed from the truth.

Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

Plato understood why sudden fortune destroys those unprepared for it. Modern research on lottery winners and child actors ...

This video explores why so many modern nations—including America, Germany, Venezuela, Pakistan, and even North Korea—call ...

Victor Davis Hanson blows up "the myth" used by Ken Burns to claim the Founding Fathers got the idea for democracy from the ...

The new structure is set on the edge of the slope, at the point where the garden disappears into the forest. One corner of ...

Plato made three doomed trips trying to reform a tyrant. His ancient mistake mirrors a modern trap: believing we can change someone who isn't ready.

If you could be invisible and never get caught, would acting unjustly make you happy? Ancient wisdom suggests why the answer ...

Enjoy a calm aerial look at Český Krumlov, one of the Czech Republic’s most picturesque towns. Captured from above, this 3D ...

Archaeologists also believe they’ve found a 13th-century Muslim necropolis — a large cemetery typically belonging to an ...

The Last Judgement (detail), by Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Michelangelo/Public Domain Plato concluded the ten books of the Republic with the myth of Er, which ...

Ken Burns has come in for some deserved criticism for pushing the line, in his new documentary on the American Revolution, that the Founding Fathers got their ideas about confederative government from ...