How Aristotle Predicted Twitter and the Alt-Right

Moral development can’t begin until the passions are under control

Aaron Ross Powell
3 min readSep 18, 2017

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I’m rereading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics for the umpteenth time for a book club with some of my colleagues, and a passage early on struck me as informative about much that’s going on in American culture today. It comes in Book 1 of the Ethics, and for those classics…

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Aaron Ross Powell

Host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast. Writer and political ethicist. Former think tank scholar.