Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...

Editor's Note: When interviewing a Greek economist at the foot of the Acropolis a few years ago, we were heckled by a young anarchist. "We should get a dollar every time you use a Greek word in your ...

Humans have had almost ceaseless difficulties in working and living together. Superstition, religious ideas, race, geography, ownership of land, and language engulf them so much, they often fail to ...

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 ...

We talk about "ancient Greece" and yet this can be misleading: there was no ancient Greek nation state, but rather a collection of numerous independent "city states" or poleis scattered through the ...

Ancient Greece was never just the sun-scorched peninsula we outline on modern maps. At its height, Hellenic civilization stretched from the shores of Spain to the eastern edges of Persia, planting ...