The Founders understood, as Henry David Thoreau would write in his famous 1849 essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”: ...

Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than ...

For many voters, the recent presidential election was devastating. For others, it was exhilarating. For both, a reminder that ...

The U.S. Constitution allows for rule by and for the people, but it also incorporates protections to prevent, or slow down, ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there's ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...

For nearly a decade, Detroit beer fans had a spacious haven for beers on tap, growler fills, hard-to-find selections, and an ...

Donald J. Robertson's 'How to Think Like Socrates' is easier than slogging through Plato and multiple volumes of ancient ...

Is a civil, functioning democracy as much a fantasy as a world of magic, elves and fairies? This is the troubling question ...

Mark Lilla’s book is a refreshing look at a timeless philosophical question: To know or not to know?

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Once a bedrock Christian classic, Boethius’s “Consolation of Philosophy” has been neglected for decades. It’s time for a ...

In the evening, at the eastern edge, we find the celestial vessel, called the vessel of the Argonauts by all the ancients. It is followed, as it rises, by the serpent called Jason; between them is the ...