Alan Mendez, Ro Boddie, Michael Stuhlbarg and Joe Tapper onstage in the Public Theater production of "Socrates." (Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the production) What does Socrates have to do with modern-day ...

Tim Blake Nelson explains how his new play "Socrates" parallels the modern-day dynamics of democracy. Tim Blake Nelson's 'Socrates' Draws Parallels Between Modern American Democracy And Ancient Greece ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Almost 2,500 years after his death, Socrates continues to fascinate. The Greek thinker is seen, by some, as the father of philosophy, a martyr for the ...

In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have favored ...