New Rome
A philosophical novel written as a dialogue, in the tradition of Plato's Republic: what a just state would look like if someone set out to build one now. Justice, education, technology, the nature of the soul, the forms of government, and what art is for.
It is built as a framework for a state rather than a story about one: what justice asks of a society, what education is for, what technology does to both, and what a citizen owes a place that is worth living in. The dialogues follow the argument wherever it goes rather than arriving where they set out to.
It argues, in the end, for a democracy worth being born again, and for the kind of citizenship that would have to carry it.
In progress. It is written in the hours that are not owed to anyone else.
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