Given America’s enduring commitment to noble ideals, the teaching of character should be as prominent in our schools as is the pursuit of academic excellence.

At a certain time of day, on certain days of the week, Mark Rowlands asks his German shepherd dog, Shadow, if he wants to ride along to fetch Rowlands’ son. This sends Shadow spinning happily, even ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. View on euronews ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

We must move beyond outdated notions of gendered power and recognise that feminism’s success lies in its inclusivity ...

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

Tiffany & Co.'s latest campaign centers around notable poems and literary works by acclaimed poets and writers across history ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...