“Some boys just know they’re gay. I don’t know how that happens. And I think other boys don’t know, and then they start discovering that.” According to Benjamin Alire Sáenz, this is the dichotomy at ...

Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz takes a break from signing copies of "Aristotle and Dante" books for readers at his home in El Paso. Alfredo Corchado / The Dallas Morning News Benjamin Alire Sáenz can’t ...

What is life? What is a soul? These are some of the questions Greek philosopher Aristotle asked. And we're still asking them today. Aristotle also could be considered the world's first natural ...

Aristotle's timeless knowledge has significance for today's college students. Discover how his concepts of friendship, logic, ...

The first time I picked up “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” I almost immediately put it back down after realizing it was set in the late 1980s. After admitting to myself ...

GREEN LAURELS—Donald Culross Peattie—Simon & Schuster ($3.75). Today’s man-in-the-subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And ...

It's one of the main lessons of the Aristotle book that you are what you eat. And if you want to feel sexy, eat animals that love sex. "Tis an infallible aphorism in physic, that whatsoever any ...

When Alan Ryan’s two-volume study of political philosophy, “On Politics,” came out a year ago, it raised a daunting, if not entirely intended, issue: How to read more than 1,000 pages of intellectual ...

Toward the end of his life, Aristotle was living in Athens with a slave woman and had a young son whose name, Nicomachos, is preserved in the Nicomachean Ethics, one of the central works of philosophy ...

The whole world is story mad. Pundits invoke the political “narrative”; passing news items become breathless podcasts; restaurant menus portentously recount “Our Story.” In the corporate world, ...