America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny

America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny

May 1, 2016 Andrew Sullivan
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 Socrates and his friends are talking about the nature of…