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Machen Amerika Great | Twitter | May 2016 Cf. the gate at Auschwitz:

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Is Tyranny Around the Corner? | New York Times | May 2016 A Washington Post piece claimed that a sizable number of Americans are supposedly wary about democracy, and Andrew Sullivan has written that Trump’s rise shows that we’re ripe for tyranny. Others have spoken of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as dual demagogues. But are Americans looking for an

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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.