The Gadfly reference dates back to Socrates, who described himself as a “gadfly,” a stinging insect whose purpose was to harass and “sting” the citizens of Athens out of their ignorance and ...

Shelley was a Socrates lover and produced an excellent translation of the Symposium while on the run in Italy with young Mary Godwin. Every modern philosopher from Kant to Foucault read Plato’s ...

Are We Heading for ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble’? Shakespeare’s MacBeth is a play about chaos that results when a person in the human chain of being rises above his level of competence. In our ...