How Aristotle Predicted Twitter and the Alt-Right
Moral development can’t begin until the passions are under control
3 min readSep 18, 2017
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…