Greg Lukianoff - Febspot

Greg Lukianoff

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Readers respond to essay on teaching Plato and campus censorship — Static01.nyt.com

Readers respond to essay on teaching Plato and campus censorship

Letters to The New York Times on Feb. 1, 2026, respond to Greg Lukianoff’s Jan. 13 opinion essay about Texas’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from university classrooms. Writers who weighed in include Zhiyi Yang, Matteo Fiori, Patricia Gamon and John R. Wallach. Zhiyi Yang, a professor

Texas A&M asked professor to remove Plato passages over 'gender ideology' — Static01.nyt.com

Texas A&M asked professor to remove Plato passages over 'gender ideology'

Martin Peterson, a Texas A&M philosophy professor, was presented last week with a choice to censor parts of his course that included readings from Plato or to teach a different class to comply with a prohibition on course materials that "advocate race or gender ideology,"