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

Students who want to read Plato have plenty of avenues to do so at Texas A&M, because, thankfully, it is not banned.

Texas A&M University’s new policy banning classroom advocacy for race and gender ideology has sparked controversy after a philosophy professor was told to remove one of Plato’s works from his syllabi.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.

As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato ...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who came up with a lot of interesting ways to view the world. Many people have different ways of viewing the world, and that is wonderful for keeping the world anything ...

Plato takes on Bill O’Reilly! The great philosopher, dead for 2,400 years, argues with Amy Chua! And Daniel Dennett! And Google! This is philosopher-novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s hook in her ...

Plato, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, continues to influence how we think about truth, justice, love, and the human soul. His thoughts, written more than 2,000 years ago, still ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...