'Many people can remember that there used to be a redistribution of income, funded by taxation. What happened to that?' Photo: Book cover of When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
When America Stopped Being Great: A history of the present by Nick Bryant
Author: Nick Bryant. Review by Reg Naulty
by Reg Naulty
6th November 2020
The governance of a society has big implications for the lives of the people living in it. Hence Plato’s Republic, which was meant to ensure that rulers knew what goodness is, and how to give it expression in a state they governed. Ideally, they would create a society in which it was easy to be good.
