Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Last month, the implementation of a hotly contested new policy at Texas A&M made waves in the news and on social media.

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A famous section of Plato’s “Symposium,” in which the Greek playwright Aristophanes describes how humans were split by the gods and spend part of their lives searching for their other halves, is ...

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle both wrote about love. More than two millennia later, their teachings ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

“Every generation could use a Plato,” said Clancy Martin in The Atlantic. If you doubt it, pick up Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “ingenious, entertaining, and challenging new book.” In an attempt to ...