Last month, the implementation of a hotly contested new policy at Texas A&M made waves in the news and on social media. The head of the school’s Philosophy department told an instructor teaching an introductory philosophy course this semester to remove selections from the philosopher Plato, saying they included “race ideology and gender ideology.” The policy, implemented last November as an update to a previous decision in the fall, states “no system academic course will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity,” though there are exceptions for non-core curriculum courses and graduate courses.

To ensure compliance with this policy, last week Texas A&M completed a full review of syllabi for more than 5,000 courses for the spring semester. A mere six were cancelled, totaling 0.11 percent of courses. An additional 48 were given exceptions by the university president to include their potentially controversial, existing content since it was “germane” to the subjects being taught. (RELATED: Shocking Number Of Elite College’s Students Claim ‘Disability’ To Avoid Roommates)

Why, then, has this introductory philosophy course drawn so much attention? The course, “PHL 111:........

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