There are few works as unsettling as “The Republic.” Not because of its complexity or reputation but because it refuses to let us hide from the hardest questions: What is justice? Is it even possible?

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In a game that needed extra innings, the Dominicans survived bases loaded in the eleventh inning to advance to the final.

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Cicero’s ringing words have been taken to mean that legal systems break down when violence holds sway—seemingly a critique of his troubled, turbulent era, the late Roman Republic. In context ...

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Fans of her pointed iconoclasm will enjoy her new book, “Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life.” The book fleshes out the character and thought of Socrates to mount a full-throated ...

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from Rebecca Yarros‘ “Onyx Storm,” the third book in her “The Empyrean” book series. Rebecca Yarros published No. 3 out of the five ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato ...