Texas A&M University blocked a philosophy professor from teaching certain Plato texts after a new rule against "advocating" ...
A professor at Texas A&M University was allegedly told to stop teaching Plato in an introductory philosophy course because of ...
Texas A&M University is one of several state colleges that has reevaluated it's curriculum in recent months. Greek ...
The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a ...
The move follows guidance from the Board of Regents that requires all faculty to obtain approval for courses that discuss ...
Martin Peterson wasn’t surprised when he had to excise two units on race and gender ideology from a philosophy course. What ...
The department chair reported to him that the "College leadership team" had decided that the section, including the Plato readings, would have to be excised from the class. If Peterson did not do so, ...
Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...
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 ...