President Trump's ban on colleges “inculcating gender ideology" doesn't define inculcate or ideology, so it leads to some ...

Transgender people have been a major political talking point for multiple years now, with discussions primarily focusing on trans people’s access to public bathrooms, sports and medical transitions.

Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms. To the Editor: Reading “If You Can’t Teach Plato in a Philosophy Class, ...

In recent months, political pressure has been reshaping Texas’ public universities. Teaching and research, the drivers of university excellence, increasingly answer to politicians rather than the ...

Texas A&M University adopted a rule last November banning the teaching of “race and gender ideology,” which includes Plato’s 2,400-year-old “Symposium.” Professor Martin Peterson explains how he ...

A funny thing happened on the way to spring semester at Texas A&M. Martin Peterson, a professor of philosophy, was given a choice by the administration. Either remove excerpts from Plato’s dialogue, ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

Thomas Jefferson loathed Plato. In 1814, he wrote to John Adams that he had been reading the Republic and came away unimpressed: “Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him his sophisms, ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - A national higher education group is condemning Texas A&M University’s decision to remove course materials, including texts by Plato, calling the changes a violation of ...

A philosophy course at Texas A&M University has become the center of a growing academic freedom debate after concerns were raised about required readings tied to classical philosophy. The situation ...