NEW YORK — From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true. But a new study ...

WASHINGTON — Aesop was a writer, possibly of African origin, who lived more than 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece. But although he's long gone, his famous fables — or those credited to him, if not ...

Fable 1: Some famished dogs saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river. [Editor’s note: A traditional method of softening hides for leather making.] Not being able to reach them, they agreed to ...

It doesn't take much to spin Aesop's fables into business lessons. The Hare and the Turtle and any number of other tales, though written around the 5th century BCE, can be easily made relevant to ...

Fables and other moral stories made their way into our books and cartoons when we were kids, but somewhere along the way, we've probably forgotten some of the important lessons they teach. Maybe ...

Many of us learned the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in grade school. You will recall that once the mother pig sent her little pigs off into the world, the first pig built his house with straw. The ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In The Great Tradition, Leavis suggested that there exists an identifiable tradition of English literary works ...

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It never hurts to repeat the truth, as a newspaper editor of my acquaintance once observed. It especially doesn’t hurt — to put a finer point on it — to repeat a collection of truths that have been ...