By Dr. Andria Porter I first read Plato as an undergraduate. Later, I studied his work in depth during my Ph.D. coursework. Plato viewed democracy as a form of tyranny. He argued that democracy gives ...

The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan ...

In Crito and Phaedo, Plato takes this alliance between Socrates and poetry further, attributing to Socrates direct acts of ...

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

Why can't trauma survivors "turn it off"? Because they've achieved mastery. Plato's ancient framework reveals how the brain ...