The Republic: A Seminal Experience

Wes: I was distracted by a lot of other things at that time. He read it in his sophomore year as part of a long course where we spent, he don't know, six weeks on it. "I remember much more reading the symposium because I wrote my... Senior thesis on that," Wes says. It's very easy to write off if you're not interested in him for the historical value and looking for the subtleties.