Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 Robert Powell We arrive to wreckage--a restaurant

We arrive to wreckage--a restaurant smashed to rubble

Simultaneously funny and touching

His crew is every heist archetype one can imag­ine--or at least

made with mushroom broth

Setting aside the familiar narrative themes

Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 Robert Powell We arrive to wreckage--a restaurantThe Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded the first institution of higher learning in the West, the Academy, among whose many notable alumni was Aristotle. Traditionally ascribed to Plato are