Plato warned that democracy could collapse into tyranny—his critique of freedom, hierarchy, and demagogues feels eerily ...

From Plato’s admiration to Aristophanes’ mockery, this animated explainer uncovers who Socrates really was, if he existed at ...

Plato's Republic is a foundational philosophical text that explores justice, the ideal state, and the role of individuals ...

In her review of “ Plato Goes to China ” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would ...

‘Plato Goes to China’ Review: When Ancients Serve Ideologues After Tiananmen, the Chinese Communist Party began using the classic thinkers of Western antiquity to legitimize its monopoly on power.

With Plato as his lodestar, Sullivan lamented the excesses of democracies and warned how easily they devolve into dictatorships. Trump, he argued, is an “extinction-level” threat.

Plato’s philosophy of love is fleshed out in the Phædrus and Symposium. Like many Greeks of his era and social standing, he is much more interested in the pederastic desire that can exist ...