I’ve known more than a few professors who enjoy turning the classroom into a stage. My own foray into the dramatic came several years ago, when I decided to bring Socrates to life in my “Cultural ...

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

THERE is on occasion a crisis in the life of a man that at the same time constitutes a crucial moment in the life of humanity. Such was what may, by not too forced a metaphor, be called the high ...

Is the endlessly examined life still worth a look? Given the choice between Socrates dead or alive, Western thinkers have preferred him dead. At least as a symbol. A symbol of what? That’s where it ...

Usher brings his lofty subject down to an understandable level, in his first book for children. With enlightening results, the author tackles the life and teachings of the famous Greek thinker in a ...

Warren Buffett believes that temperament is more important than IQ when it comes to successful investing. He said recently that "you absolutely have to have the right temperament. Otherwise, something ...

Today, some lament, the unraveling of the traditional moral fibers holding our families and communities together continues. And some of the blame is surely placed upon the counter-influential forces ...

In her new book, Callard makes the case that we should all live more philosophically but where does politics fit in? Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates is like many works of philosophy: It is addressed to ...