(Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Philosopher Agnes Callard revels in contrarianism. She has defended union busting and marital infidelity; denied the appeal of travel; and stood up for throwing ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates, the philosopher forced by his fellow Athenians to drink hemlock in 399 BCE; she wants to be him. Entirely conscious of himself as an icon, Callard ...

Agnes Callard is a professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and she lives with her current husband and her ex-husband. At the same time, yes. They raised the kids together as well (two ...

Agnes Callard, the American philosopher, makes a persuasive plea to return philosophical thinking to the centre of our lives in Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life (2025), socking it ...

At least six people died and 38 others were injured when a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker exploded in Punjab’s Multan late last night, police said on Monday. Multan Deputy Commissioner (DC ...

In a win for human rights advocates Friday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Child Marriage Prohibition Amendment Act of 2024. This legislation, proposed in October 2024, would ensure ...

Charles Lawson has said he struggles to heat his home (Picture: REX/Shutterstock) Former ITV Coronation Street star Charles Lawson has said that 2024 was his career’s ‘rockiest’ and can’t ...

By Pippa Bailey In the acknowledgements at the end of her new book, Open Socrates, the philosopher Agnes Callard writes: “Socrates compares writing down one’s ideas to planting seeds in barren soil ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser released a statement to FOX 5 that said in part: "President Trump pardoned two MPD officers involved in a fatal police pursuit. While MPD has long believed that the ...

Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) is an herb, native to southern Europe and parts of Asia, with a long history of traditional medical use. Widespread use over thousands of years in ancient cultures ...