In an interesting recent article in Foreign Affairs, Josiah Ober - a leading academic expert on ancient Greek democracy - argues that there is much we can learn from the Greek experience that could be ...

Professor Michael Scott wants to dispense with one of the greatest misnomers about the study of the ancient world – that it is a subject which is no longer relevant. “There is a misconception that ...

Ancient thinkers struggled to tell facts from falsehoods just like we do – and their strategies are still relevant today.

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International investors have been preoccupied with two major events lately: the Greek crisis and the spectacular crash of the Chinese stock market. In terms of scale, the Chinese crash was much worse, ...