Jill Frank

Jill Frank, a professor of government at Cornell University and a Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project, is the author of A Democracy of Distinction: Aristotle and the Work of Politics (2005) and “Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato’s Republic,” forthcoming in fall 2017.


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How Oligarchy Breeds Tyranny

The last 18 months have seen a surge of public interest in classical texts. In Plato’s dialogue the Republic, readers have found an almost perfect sketch of Donald …