Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment..

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension"..

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had ther….

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiali….

We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many diff….

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of neces….

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato..

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority….

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding..

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remar….

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks..

In the western world today everyone is a democrat..

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole..