I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

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History often provides perfect metaphors for our personal struggles. Few historical episodes offer more relationship wisdom than Plato's three ill-fated journeys to Sicily in the 4th century BCE.

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Plato "Tete" Pearson Jr., son of the late Catherine Scurry Pearson and Plato Pearson, Sr., died peacefully on October 22, 2025 at his Covenant Village home. Tete was a lifelong resident of Gastonia ...

It is hard to imagine the “400 Silent Years,” or the intertestamental period between the Old and New Testaments, when God was silent, not speaking through prophets. There were shifts between the rules ...

Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously appeared in The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Eater, and other outlets. Gary ...

As Benjamin Franklin was leaving the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a woman asked: “Well Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin’s retort has been passed down through history: ...

Michael Keaton is facing backlash after his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s death were shared on social media. Many gathered under a tweet posted by Variety on Monday to call out the “Batman” ...