“Some boys just know they’re gay. I don’t know how that happens. And I think other boys don’t know, and then they start discovering that.” According to Benjamin Alire Sáenz, this is the dichotomy at ...

Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz takes a break from signing copies of "Aristotle and Dante" books for readers at his home in El Paso. Alfredo Corchado / The Dallas Morning News Benjamin Alire Sáenz can’t ...

Aristotle's timeless knowledge has significance for today's college students. Discover how his concepts of friendship, logic, balance, and purpose can help you develop healthier habits, make wiser ...

GREEN LAURELS—Donald Culross Peattie—Simon & Schuster ($3.75). Today’s man-in-the-subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And ...

The first time I picked up “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” I almost immediately put it back down after realizing it was set in the late 1980s. After admitting to myself ...

Poetics by Aristotle is “the first surviving work devoted to literary criticism”. I was first told it was essential reading (to the point of it being an embarrassment not to have imbibed every page ...

When Alan Ryan’s two-volume study of political philosophy, “On Politics,” came out a year ago, it raised a daunting, if not entirely intended, issue: How to read more than 1,000 pages of intellectual ...

Toward the end of his life, Aristotle was living in Athens with a slave woman and had a young son whose name, Nicomachos, is preserved in the Nicomachean Ethics, one of the central works of philosophy ...

The whole world is story mad. Pundits invoke the political “narrative”; passing news items become breathless podcasts; restaurant menus portentously recount “Our Story.” In the corporate world, ...

Jonathan Lear was a longtime University of Chicago philosophy professor and psychoanalyst whose areas of study encompassed ...