After a week away, with no internet, no email and no updates on twittering Twump’s transition team, I am back with my Minus Plato daily postings. They will be shorter and sweeter than usual until the new year as I have an essay to write on Simone Weil’s use of ancient Greek and Roman ideas […]
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