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 ...
And yet this is exactly what happened at the state-run American university A&M, with its eighty thousand students, in Texas.
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Texas sends Plato back to his cave

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 ...