So, Socrates needs an argument better targeted against democracy. Books II-IV of The Republic present a more focused argument. In it, Socrates says that ruling is a skilled trade that the majority ...

Despite the rhetoric, it is the Democrats, not the Republicans, who have undermined themselves electorally through their ...

In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...