In her review of “ Plato Goes to China ” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would ...

Plato's Republic is a foundational philosophical text that explores justice, the ideal state, and the role of individuals ...

‘Plato Goes to China’ Review: When Ancients Serve Ideologues After Tiananmen, the Chinese Communist Party began using the classic thinkers of Western antiquity to legitimize its monopoly on power.

Dismissed as legend, Atlantis might be history's loudest whisper. New clues suggest it wasn’t fantasy—it was forgotten.

Plato's Closet, which was founded in 1998, is one of the leading second-hand brand-name clothes and accessories stores in North America. They buy and sell gently used brand-name clothing and ...

Plato Cacheris was born in Pittsburgh on May 22, 1929, to Greek immigrants, Christos and Phaedra (Economou) Cacheris. They moved to Washington when Plato and his younger brother, James, were boys.

With Plato as his lodestar, Sullivan lamented the excesses of democracies and warned how easily they devolve into dictatorships. Trump, he argued, is an “extinction-level” threat.

Socrates or Plato may not have used Twitter or TikTok, but as Nathan Dufour Oglesby writes, they would have had things to say about how to navigate social media more wisely.

Plato’s philosophy of love is fleshed out in the Phædrus and Symposium. Like many Greeks of his era and social standing, he is much more interested in the pederastic desire that can exist ...