Alan Bloom is definitely a nonstandard reading of the republic, and he is very much so trying to grind his (academicly) political axe. It's also amazing and my

Alan Bloom is definitely a nonstandard reading of the republic, and he is very much so trying to grind his (academicly) political axe. It's also amazing and my favorite edition of the republic (just don't take his intro and footnotes as accepted truth).