CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams examines the complex relationship between the classics and identity politics. And he is speaking to Walter Isaacson about racism, ...

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know about ...

This all-day Saturday session begins by briefly considering philosophy in the emerging Greek world, from Thales to Socrates. What does Socrates offer that is new and how? Discussion, debate, dialogue, ...

Detail from the Chigi vase. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain While discussing philosophy in the public square, Socrates would also have been training as a hoplite, a heavily armed foot soldier ...

Near the Acropolis, there are caves. In this birthplace of democracy known as Athens Greece, tradition tells us that some 25 centuries ago, one of these caves was Socrates’ prison. Today, these caves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What would Socrates and Plato say about AI? Former Greek leader George Papandreou has some ideas In Plato’s cave, humans watch ...