I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Plato "Tete" Pearson Jr., son of the late Catherine Scurry Pearson and Plato Pearson, Sr., died peacefully on October 22, 2025 at his Covenant Village home. Tete was a lifelong resident of Gastonia ...

The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan O’Toole there was Simeon Stylites, who preached for more than 30 years from a ...

Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously appeared in The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Eater, and other outlets. Gary ...

The attack prompted Keir Starmer to fly home early from a meeting of European leaders to chair an emergency Cobra meeting, ITV News Correspondent Sejal Karia reports Two people have died and a suspect ...

Maite joined the AS USA in 2021, bringing her experience as a research analyst investigating illegal logging to the team. Maite’s interest in politics propelled her to pursue a degree in international ...

The ancient Greek philosopher has much to say about contemporary issues relating to politics, speech, knowledge, and living well, according to this stimulating exploration. University of Sheffield ...

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information. When I ask whether artificial ...

Everybody knows philosophy is useless. Philosophers have their heads in the clouds having nothing to do with events on the ground. Parents of university students want their kids to earn MD, JD or MBA ...