In the year 399 BC, seventy years after he was born, Socrates was brought before the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the city's youth. His belief that the gods must be good or ...

Actually, Netanyahu would do well to read Plato, to learn about democracy and the rule of law, and to stand trial and accept the verdict. Instead, he is proving Socrates right: subverting the laws ...

But by the time of Socrates’ trial, Athens was in trouble. It had just lost a long and brutal war against Sparta, known as ...

Take Euthyphro, for example, one of Socrates’ principal interlocutors. Euthyphro is so sure that he knows the difference between right and wrong that he is bringing his own father to trial.

Self-described on her X (formerly Twitter) account as someone who has covered "every big trial except Socrates'," Deutsch got her start in court reporting in 1969 with the trial of Sen.