But the woman's name is not Sharon. Her real name is Debra Newton, and she had created an entirely new life and remarried ...

On November 26, 2025, inside a convenience store in Jilin, northeastern China, CCTV captured a playful family moment that ...

Explore 10 hidden philosophies in The Matrix, from Plato to Buddhism, and discover the deeper truths behind Neo’s journey and reality itself.

The festive season is officially upon us and that means it's time to update our Christmas playlists, queue up Christmas movies on Netflix, and shop for Christmas presents (even if we plan on keeping ...

One of my favorite jokes requires a little setup. It’s from the first “Naked Gun” movie, from 1988, starring Leslie Nielsen as the bumbling Los Angeles police detective Frank Drebin and Priscilla ...

History often provides perfect metaphors for our personal struggles. Few historical episodes offer more relationship wisdom than Plato's three ill-fated journeys to Sicily in the 4th century BCE.

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

The ancient world gave us lots of things: Democracy, science, literature. It also gave us the columnist. Before Fintan O’Toole there was Simeon Stylites, who preached for more than 30 years from a ...

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information. When I ask whether artificial ...

One way classical scholars have kept busy for 2,500 years is by debating what’s real and what isn’t. Readers today take it for granted that the texts they encounter are stable and reliable. But in the ...