Socrates Warned Us About Political Ambition 2,400 Years Ago. We Hired a PR Firm to Fix It.
The people most eager to rule us may be the last people we should trust. Unfortunately, the people we’d rather trust have better things to do. In Book I of The Republic (347 BCE), Socrates offered an observation about political leadership that remains relevant more than two millennia later: decent people don’t seek power for money or…