Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at it.
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Hope does not ride alone. It has a companion: anxiety. A classics scholar who is a poet notes that, at what may be the end of a long and dark pandemic year, both are in evidence.
Plato’s Republic is one of the most influential books in history. It has been claimed by people on all sides of the political spectrum and continues to resonate today.
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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