In recent months, political pressure has been reshaping Texas’ public universities. Teaching and research, the drivers of university excellence, increasingly answer to politicians rather than the ...

Anyone who has studied elementary history would know Socrates. Almost all of us have grown up reading his quotes and ideologies in some or the other way. Socrates was a stonemason's son. He was born ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Nov. 18, 2015, the 30th anniversary of the Socrates grounding. It has been lightly edited for the 40th anniversary. It was a quintessential ...

Today, reading and writing are considered essential to function in modern society, but more than 2,400 years ago in Ancient Greece, the legendary philosopher Socrates was not a fan. Famous for never ...

Today, reading and writing are considered essential to function in modern society, but more than 2,400 years ago in Ancient Greece, the legendary philosopher Socrates was not a fan. Famous for never ...

In Benjamin Franklin’s famous list of thirteen virtues toward personal perfection, he urges his readers to “Imitate Jesus and Socrates.” As a teacher, I try to live up to this call. We hear a lot ...

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 ...

A Georgia Tech CS professor is a co-author of a new OpenAI study that examines why large language models struggle to say, 'I don't know.' An Adobe Stock AI-generated image of Socrates, sculpted in ...

Stephen Batchelor, a teacher and former Buddhist monk who rose to prominence after the publication of 1997’s Buddhism without Belief s, offers a philosophical exploration of secular Buddhism in his ...