We must re-learn how to be good courtiers

On the Great Books and achieving power (and also some Tang Dynasty poetry)

Once upon a time, I wrote an essay about how nobody cares whether or not I've read Plato. But I'm starting to realize that's no longer true. For the first time in perhaps a hundred years, knowledge of the Great Books has become a pathway to power.

This is most true amongst the right-wing, where the classic example is Bronze Age Pervert--who's achieved fa…