Does Democracy Lead to Tyranny? (Rep. VIII) Plato argued that the inevitable next step in political evolution after democracy is tyranny. Many political thinkers throughout history agreed with him. Were they right?
Democracy and Demagogues in Ancient Athens w/ Josiah Ober Historian Josiah Ober of Stanford University joins us for a discussion on ancient Athens, how the Athenian system compared to our own democracy, and what lessons, if any, we can take away from the Athenian experience.
