April 18, 2017
Senior Concentrator David Clifton draws comparisons between President Donald Trump and the Athenian general Cleon in the Crimson:
Will the United States go the way of Athens, unable or unwilling to stop a demagogue from undermining its democracy and ruining its international power? Will liberal democracies go the way of the independent Greek city-states, crippled by internal chaos and nationalist tensions? These questions are too big to answer by analogy, but analogy demands that they be asked.