We don’t need to guess about how republics fail: we have history and philosophy to guide us. Republics end with tyrants, but that is an odd thing since a republican will hate tyrants by nature. How do we get tyrants? One wise man wrote on tyranny and the human soul and he tried to understand how tyrants were made. He knew that nobody was born a tyrant, but tyrants exist. He saw a so-called democracy advocate torture and murder the... Read more