The most famous of the sophists, Protagoras, famously said, “man is the measure of all things,” an ancient Greek way of saying, “reality is what you make it, bro.” ...

But the essential nature of a culture war is invariant: A set of traditional values comes under attack by those who, like the Greek Sophist, the French philosophe and the American intellectual ...

Around the age of 15, Regilla wed Lucius Vibullius Hipparchus Tiberius Claudius Atticus Herodes, about age 40, a Greek sophist philosopher who had inherited a vast fortune. After a brief period of ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, Janan Ganesh gets two things wrong in his column “We are all sophists now — or should be ...

THERE exists a certain class of mind, allied perhaps to the ancient Greek Sophist variety, to which ignorance of a subject offers no sufficient obstacle to the composition of a treatise upon it.