🧩 Philosophy Aug 5, 2026 · Justin Weinberg

Faculty Sues University over Plato-Banning Policy

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Faculty Sues University over Plato-Banning Policy
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Texas A&M is being sued by a group of professors and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas over a policy that led to, among other things, a professor being banned from teaching Plato’s Symposium, the cancellation of an “Ethics and Public Policy” course, and the closure of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

The policy, instituted by the university’s Board of Regents in the fall of 2025, prohibits courses from “advocating race or gender ideology, or t

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