Are we all political animals? Aristotle thought so. Politics, he believed, was the art of the possible, but extremes of ...

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, center, who founded local newspaper Apple Daily, is arrested by police officers at his home ...

More than 180 migrants crossed into Poland through a tunnel hidden in a forest on the border with Belarus.

To really understand what is happening today, we must understand the ideology and thinkers behind the MAGA New Right.

Introduction: A Nation of Promise Held Back by Its Own Failures Ghana often feels like a bright lamp hidden under a heavy cloth .

I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

Maine’s fashion-savvy bargain hunters have discovered a retail wonderland where designer labels don’t demand designer prices – Plato’s Closet in South Portland is the thrift store equivalent of ...

At Plato’s Closet in South Portland, Maine, that victory feeling isn’t a once-a-year event—it’s Tuesday afternoon, or ...

John Williams’ argument in last week’s paper suffers from the fallacy of false equivalence. Even a cursory look at Machiavelli tells us that he supports a ruler who comes to power by eliminating other ...