Step into Plato’s "The Republic" as it asks a question that still won’t let go of us: what is justice, and what kind of city – and soul – does it take to live well? In this ReReadium episode, we follow Socrates through imagined cities, philosopher‑kings, and censored stories to explore how his ancient worries about democracy, inequality, and bad leadership echo in an age of algorithms, strongmen, and “fake news.”

Additional sources for this episode:

• https://www.planksip.org/platos-critique-of-democracy-and-its-modern-implications/
• https://complexsystems.org/publications/platos-republic-a-21st-century-makeover/
• https://explaininghistory.org/2025/08/28/what-plato-can-teach-us-about-the-crises-of-the-21st-century/
• https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol25/iss3/2/
• https://www.insightfultake.com/details/unlocking-the-relevance-of-platos-republic-in-the-modern-world
• https://philarchive.org/archive/EUGPCO

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