America stands on the eve of an election in which incumbents elected two years ago on a platform of hope face an electorate fueled by anger and despondency. Budgets won’t balance, debts mount, homes ...

Four years ago, while filming Fantastic Four, Tim Blake Nelson began writing a play. "Especially when doing a superhero movie, I find myself in need of intellectual succor," says the writer, filmmaker ...

Tim Blake Nelson explains how his new play "Socrates" parallels the modern-day dynamics of democracy. Tim Blake Nelson's 'Socrates' Draws Parallels Between Modern American Democracy And Ancient Greece ...

You could be forgiven (but what’s the fun in that), if you were to think. Looking at Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting The Death of Socrates, you could believe you’re seeing Socrates giving ...

Cornel West, a philosopher and academic from Princeton University, speaks with Penn professor Christopher Phillips and a small audience of students in the Amado Recital Hall at Irvine Auditorium.

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge ...

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 have favored ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for the ...