What have the Romans ever done for us?” the actor John Cleese once asked, in a famous Monty Python sketch, before being forced to admit a...

There is no democracy without equal participation Over the past few years, it has become quite fashionable to speak of ‘threats to...

Roslyn Fuller, Professor at the Solonian Democracy Institute, on the Irish Brexit test After a week of upheaval, when the House of...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Paul Cartledge, a Cambridge professor with a background in the classics, published Democracy: A Life in 2016. Our...

Politics feels increasingly fractious, perhaps irrevocably broken. That is a blinkered view. The only thing that is certain is change,...

"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at five stars" Roslyn Fuller interviews Eleonora Evi, MEP for Italy’s Five Star...

The Olympics. Philosophy. Big marble statues of naked dudes wrestling. Lots of extraordinary things came from Ancient Greece, Direct...

Patrick Chalmers of of AllHandsOn has put together this documentary about the Citizens' Assembly on the 8th Amendment on abortion in...

AS AMERICAN DEMOCRACY seems to take another downward bend in its own death spiral with each passing week, the United States might learn a...

Article by Brook Manville The January 2017 stock market is showing plenty of optimism, but the political sphere swirls with anxiety....

A discussion between Katy Collins and Roslyn Fuller: Katy Collin, PhD in international relations, School of International Service,...

AS THE UNITED STATES APPROACHES a most divisive presidential election, it is hardly surprising to see an upsurge in literature proposing...

“What is education?” Ruth Wangerin asks me, when I Skype the sociology professor at her home in New York. “Is education a good for its...

This Friday, Oliver Stone’s film 'Snowden' hits theaters. The release will be accompanied by a campaign that is focused on procuring a...

The recent Brexit referendum revealed a deep societal rift about what the word ‘democracy’ means. To some, the term ‘democracy’ is...

A candidate in the recent General Election in Fingal is to mount an experiment in 'digital democracy' which should provide a fascinating...

Is the old political order being overturned by a new democratic populism? Dr. Fuller debates this question on the BBC World Service...

ANDREW SULLIVAN’S RECENT  New York magazine essay, Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic , rattled many a reader and provoked a...

Few elections in the Western world offer the spectacle that is an American presidential race. While Brits tend to keep a stiff upper lip...