I’ve known more than a few professors who enjoy turning the classroom into a stage. My own foray into the dramatic came several years ago, when I decided to bring Socrates to life in my “Cultural ...

THERE is on occasion a crisis in the life of a man that at the same time constitutes a crucial moment in the life of humanity. Such was what may, by not too forced a metaphor, be called the high ...

Socrates’s insistence on challenging Athenian culture might be one of Western intellectual tradition’s greatest gifts — a ...

Socrates was one of the most renowned Greek philosophers of all time. Born in Athens circa 470 BCE, this ancient Greek philosopher laid the groundwork for Western philosophy, paving the way for ...

Is the endlessly examined life still worth a look? Given the choice between Socrates dead or alive, Western thinkers have preferred him dead. At least as a symbol. A symbol of what? That’s where it ...

Usher brings his lofty subject down to an understandable level, in his first book for children. With enlightening results, the author tackles the life and teachings of the famous Greek thinker in a ...

Today, some lament, the unraveling of the traditional moral fibers holding our families and communities together continues. And some of the blame is surely placed upon the counter-influential forces ...

Warren Buffett believes that temperament is more important than IQ when it comes to successful investing. He said recently that "you absolutely have to have the right temperament. Otherwise, something ...

Socrates was remarkably full-blooded for an ascetic philosopher. In Xenophon’s Symposium, he says, “For myself I cannot name the time at which I have not been in love with someone.” By all accounts, ...