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Jacob Howland on Glaucon's Fate & Plato's Republic

The New Thinkery

CHAPTER

CloudCon's Fate

Alex House: I think a lot of graduate students, even young professors like my two idiotic co-hosts, they're like, well, I gotta do the standard reading of Xenophon and blah blah blah. But in a way that's really an awesome task to write on Plato. Look at what Alex did. He wrote on, what's that dialogue nobody can access, Alex, that you wrote your book on? The barmanities. So Alex found his lane. A fresh look at the Republic just seems like too awesome with House. David wants to ask a question about Millbow Cox. No, I know all about that.

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