Highway to Hellenic

How crazy has the war on woke become at some universities? Actually, don’t answer that Socratic form of news delivery. Even Socrates won’t be on safe ground for long. NYT (Gift Article): Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato. “Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University, was thunderstruck when he was told on Tuesday that he needed to excise some teachings of Plato from his syllabus. It was one way, his department head wrote in an email, that Dr. Peterson’s philosophy class could comply with new policies limiting discussion of race and gender.” I’ll let Plato himself provide the pithy kicker to this story. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” (There’s some dispute as to whether this quote is accurately cited, which is the only reason I feel safe sharing it.)