Texas A&M University adopted a rule last November banning the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” which includes Plato’s ...

A funny thing happened on the way to spring semester at Texas A&M. Martin Peterson, a professor of philosophy, was given a ...

In the latest move in Texas' campaign to bar gender and race ideology from education, an intro-level philosophy course at ...

Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.

Martin Peterson has taught philosophy at Texas A&M University for more than a decade, but now the school has barred him from ...

The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a ...

I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

History often provides perfect metaphors for our personal struggles. Few historical episodes offer more relationship wisdom than Plato's three ill-fated journeys to Sicily in the 4th century BCE.

For centuries, the Iliad and Odyssey were more than literature to the Greeks: they were formative texts, the stories through which young minds learned what it meant to be human, to be heroic, to be ...