Democracies are notoriously fragile. Athenians who lived some two generations after fending off Persian invaders in 480 BC would affirm as much. After a meteoric rise to superpower status in the fifth ...

Ancient marble bust of Emperor Caracalla, 212-217. In the collections of the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Instances of xenophobia shook the cities, each one worse than the next, in the anxious years of ...

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and kingdoms of Classical Greece... All the more reason to create a video about it ...

Greece’s fiscal and economic crisis has sharpened debates among economists, political scientists, and policymakers about political institutions and economic growth. Do good institutions—democracy and ...

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Lessons from Ancient Rome is a very relevant and timely lecture as the United States of America faces a decision point in 2020 about which direction to take the country. Reed ...