This Is No Way to Run a University

Texas A&M seems to have concluded that the safest way to handle the ideas contained in a classic text is to bury them. This ...

Texas A&M Forbids A Plato Reading In An Intro Philosophy Course

Texas A&M has told a professor he must drop a discussion of race and gender issues and writings by Plato from his intro ...

Professor Forbidden to Teach Plato Assigns Article About University Censorship Instead

Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is using the censorship of Plato from his course syllabus to teach his ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Texas A&M Bans Plato Excerpt From a Philosophy Course

Martin Peterson wasn’t surprised when he had to excise two units on race and gender ideology from a philosophy course. What ...
Inside Higher Ed

Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review

A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning ...
IFLScience

Did Plato Hide Heretical Music Theory In His Philosophy?

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
Slate

Plato’s Return

Plato takes on Bill O’Reilly! The great philosopher, dead for 2,400 years, argues with Amy Chua! And Daniel Dennett! And Google! This is philosopher-novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s hook in her ...