Socrates and the Mob 2020

Members of a protest group affiliated with NFAC, most carrying firearms, gather to march in Louisville, Ky, on July 25, 2020. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images

Commentary

Imagine a place where free citizens could be called before tribunals on charges brought against them by other citizens. The charges might be as general and unprovable as “corrupting the youth” or maybe “not believing properly in the gods of the community.”