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Ancient Greeks Skeptical of Democracy Are Currently Being Proven Right, Former Supreme Court Justice Says
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Ancient Greeks Skeptical of Democracy Are Currently Being Proven Right, Former Supreme Court Justice Says

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Ancient Greeks Skeptical of Democracy Are Currently Being Proven Right, Former Supreme Court Justice Says
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Why Socrates Hated Democracy: one of the wisest people who ever lived, Socrates, had deep suspicions of it.

In 2017, former Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy re-read Plato and Aristotle. “It always irritated me

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