Bo Dietl — a former NYPD detective, one-time mayoral candidate and persistent political gadfly — said during an episode of his One Tough Podcast that he was told to triple security cost ...

In her latest book, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life, Callard explores why inquiry—not certainty—is at the heart of philosophy. Her work is both deeply personal and inherently Socratic ...

Callard argues that above all else, Socrates was a “gadfly,” but not merely because he was enamored with argument; instead, it was because he had a distinct view of philosophical progress.

A 2021 article in the South California Law Review labeled him an effective corporate gadfly—not a highly connected executive, but a “former Hughes Aircraft employee (who) now walks or takes ...

December 11, 2024 US CFTC Democrat says she could be a 'gadfly' to Republican majority Kristin Johnson, a top Democratic official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, signalled on ...

Featuring Kris Bower's The Wild Robot, Hildur Guðnadóttir's expressive music from The Joker and a moment from Shostakovich from 1955's The Gadfly. A Thousand Blows (Original Soundtrack).

Not one to suffer fools gladly, Gore Vidal gained a reputation as a silver-tongued writer and pundit who had wit in spades (Getty) Gore Vidal said that he hoped to be remembered as “the person ...

But ever the overachiever, former St. Louis political gadfly Ed Martin has managed to find more than 100. Some 103 former federal prosecutors — all who served in the Washington federal district ...

Donald Trump has remade the GOP in his image. Once a gadfly whose ideas were widely derided as late as 2016, Trump now dominates his party. This is odd because Trump isn’t particularly ideological.

He’s since promoted a video from (of course) conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Trump-adjacent gadfly Roger Stone suggesting that the election was stolen, a time-honored Republican response to ...

The self-styled protector of small stockholders at corporate meetings is Xanthippe-tongued Wilma Porter Soss, fiftyish, who once showed up at a U.S. Steel meeting in a 1901 puffed-sleeve dress and ...

He also publishes The Gadfly, a blog with a small audience but an outsize role in stoking rage against Mr. Hill and the board of trustees. The Gadfly has run dozens of letters from readers about ...