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Democracies end when they are too democratic | New York Magazine | April 2016 As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato’s Republic. It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school. The passage is from the part of the dialogue where

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What one of the greatest civilizations in history tells us about Donald Trump | Washington Post | May 2016 Andrew Sullivan is hardly the first to interpret current events through the teachings of Plato. The problem is that he takes Plato a little too literally.