Glenn Beck and Plato

Did you ever think you’d see those two in the same sentence?

Beck has attacked Rocco Landesman, the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman, for telling Valerie Jarrett that he thought he could “use art to change the world.”

Matt Yglesias draws the comparison to Plato, whose disdain for “poets” and their capacity for political subversion led him to cast them out of The Republic.  Further, while he admits Beck is considerably more skeptical of government power, Yglesias contends that the American right wing tends strongly toward Platonic authoritarianism.

-Colin

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November 2, 2009 · Filed Under Art, Colin, Politics

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