The only rescue Socrates ever sought was from ignorance and vice. Roosevelt Montás explains why Socrates may be the rescuer we need today.
Robert Bartlett brings to life Plato’s juxtaposition of Socrates and Protagoras, who may have been Socrates' most impressive opponent.
This unassuming virtue can bear rich fruit.
Glenn Ellmers believes that Leo Strauss’s theory is the only corrective for the philosophical drain on our sovereignty.
Cultivating civilized habits can help people to live together despite deep disagreements.
Middle Earth is well stocked with themes from classical literature.
A focus on the philosophical background of Flannery O’Connor allows us to access the deepest meaning of her narrative art.
For Hegel, change needed to build on earlier achievements and learn from past failures.
Is it still possible "to preserve the ancient ideal of liberal education and to extend it as far as possible to all members of the community" today?
Alex Priou's aphoristic reflections on Plato's Symposium are not "scholarly." Rather, they invite the reader to a humanistic experience.
A new novel uses the history of an imaginary island to explore the value of tradition and the challenges of modernity.
Though he is occasionally prone to overconfidence, Joseph Epstein does understand the value of the novel.
A left-wing thinker yearns for a benevolent strongman who can transcend the dehumanizing tendencies of modernity.
The highest stage of the art of fly fishing involves escapism, wonder, friendship, and most important of all, spirituality.