When Bettany Hughes published her study of Helen of Troy in 2005, skeptics had good cause for doubt that anything worthwhile could be made out of such a hackneyed and intangible subject. Yet Hughes ...

Socrates’s insistence on challenging Athenian culture might be one of Western intellectual tradition’s greatest gifts — a ...

The trial of Socrates is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating in history. The famous philosopher was accused of various ailments and was forced to drink a poison, hemlock, before dying at the age ...

I much enjoyed Jacob Mchangama's podcast on the history of free speech (Clear and Present Danger), so I'm particularly pleased to see his book is now out: According to Columbia University president ...

Socrates…. Where is deception most likely to occur—regarding things that differ much or things that differ little from one another? Phaedrus. Regarding those that ...

But though neither left any writings, and though both were killed as subversives, they are arguably the most influential individuals in human history. Socrates, the founder of Western philosophy; ...

We are afraid to ask questions to the power brokers of our time, which makes us more likely to accept easy answers.

Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) waded into the online fray around “cancel culture” with a nod to the ancient philosopher whom he calls his hero. “If Socrates was out philosophizing in American ...

Kadri's history of the criminal trial in the Western legal tradition presents representative cases, many famous, some little known, to illustrate the approaches, both rational and not, that organized ...