Alex Priou is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Interim Dean of the Center for Intellectual Foundations at University of Austin, as well as co-host of The New Thinkery podcast.

We discuss the place of the Great Books in education, a justification of political philosophy in terms of the good life, his review of Palantir's Alex Karp's and Nicholas Zamiska's book, “The Technological Republic,” the challenges posed by life mediated through technology, the interplay between great thinkers, and his upcoming book on Plato’s “Republic” and Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War”, exploring how times of decadence create a desire for revolutionary politics and drawing parallels to the pitfalls of today.

Alex Priou

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