The Greek philosopher's writing explores themes of sexuality and gender, making it susceptible to the university's new rules ...
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.” ...
It's troubling to think that some of the courses that changed my perspective in college would be censored in a modern ...
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 ...
It's comic and tragic, writes Robert Zaretsky, that Texas' philosopher-kings have censored a potential ally.
The father of Western philosophy joins gender ideology on the list of things undergraduates cannot be trusted to encounter because it’s too sexy.
There’s a sense of triumphalism in the headlines. “Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his ‘gender ideology,’” one caption at ...
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 ...
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.