Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.
Texas A&M University’s new policy banning classroom advocacy for race and gender ideology has sparked controversy after a ...
Is Plato woke? Texas A&M professor speaks out after being banned from teaching the Greek philosopher
The Greek philosopher's writing explores themes of sexuality and gender, making it susceptible to the university's new rules adopted in November that ban the teaching of “race and gender ideology”.
And yet this is exactly what happened at the state-run American university A&M, with its eighty thousand students, in Texas.
Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.
It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great complexity and elegance, the book is one of the ...
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