On January 6, readers of the Daily Nous were told that “an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato.” The following day, the story made it to The New York Times, under the slightly less mendacious headline: Texas A&M, Under New Curriculum Limits, Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato.
Of course, as we academic reformers have come to expect, what was reported was not what actually happened. Rather, when Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson submitted his “Contemporary Moral Problems” syllabus for approval, he was told by philosophy chair Professor Kristi Sweet to remove certain portions of that syllabus or be removed from teaching the course: “You may mitigate your course content to remove the modules on race ideology and gender ideology and the Plato readings that may include these.”
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