Texas A&M University Orders Professor to Remove Plato and Race/Gender Content from Philosophy Course

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide.

an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato.

Please note that my course does not 'advocate' any ideology; I teach students how to structure and evaluate arguments commonly raised in discussions of contemporary moral issues.

the U.S. Constitution protects my course content, as do the norms of academic freedom.

That the first such conflict involves telling a professor to remove from his syllabus the writings of the person who created what was arguably the west's first institution of higher education is too perfect an irony.