It's comic and tragic, writes Robert Zaretsky, that Texas' philosopher-kings have censored a potential ally.

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

Neglecting the classics can contribute to the project of historical erasure that allows people with agendas to write their desired futures into imaginary pasts as if they’re true.

Prologue In the early 1970s, I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Adamantios Koraes at the University of Wisconsin. I read his ...

While people in Ancient Athens had a remarkable work ethic, they placed equal value on leisure, seeing it as time for ...

Socrates would have warned that overrelying on artificial intelligence for answers risks dulling the human mind and ...

Efforts to censor the likes of Plato, who held the apparently dangerous idea that reason should be the proper ruler of the soul, only expose the weakness of the censors ...

Martin Peterson wasn’t surprised when he had to excise two units on race and gender ideology from a philosophy course. What did shock him was that the ban included readings from Plato’s “Symposium.” ...

Texas A&M University is reviewing 5,000 class syllabi to ensure compliance with new state-level rules on teaching race and ...

In the latest move in Texas' campaign to bar gender and race ideology from education, an intro-level philosophy course at Texas A&M University has had sections of Plato's writings removed.

Texas A&M University’s new policy banning classroom advocacy for race and gender ideology has sparked controversy after a ...

The professor allegedly refused to provide needed details to gain an exemption. His dean said he had to cancel it under the ...