Peter Wagner

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between…

We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the ques…

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalizati…

The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the con…