MAGA: On Making Athens Great Again, Then and Now

We live at a time in the Western world when the moral values of free speech and universal care have been inverted by a strange form of oligarchic-speak and even stranger forms of economics designed to favour the rich and the strong. This ‘might is right’ idea is not new. Nor is there any compelling evidence to show that it works in the long term as a political ideal. Plato, as a young man, experienced this strange trickery with language and this advocacy of power in Athens, which motivated him to explore the issue in several of his dialogues, especially the Gorgias.