Let’s sit down and have a chat. Across time, these ‘chats’ have always been central to understanding. Plato’s Dialogues, with Socrates as the primary protagonist, laid the groundwork for philosophical ...

Might gays make better soldiers? David Cohen, a classicist from the University of California at Berkeley, has reminded us that Plato thought so-or at least Phaedrus, a leading voice in the “Symposium” ...