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 ...

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).

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 ...

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Majority party legislators scrambled to invigorate America’s economy with a new law they say will save the nation’s manufacturers and consumers billions of dollars in previously wasted electrical ...

Will-Power, a subsidiary of a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based natural gas company, has proposed building a gas-fired power plant called Socrates North in New Albany. The proposed plant would be located near ...

Tom Boggioni is a writer, born, raised and living in San Diego — where he attended San Diego State University. Prior to writing for Raw Story, he wrote for FireDogLake, blogged as TBogg, and ...

TOKYO – A sense of crisis is building within Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as its status as the ruling party is again in jeopardy after a series of money-related scandals. The LDP has ...