Around Valentine’s day last year, I ended up at an actual “symposium.” becca rothfeld, the non-fiction book critic at the Washington Post, and I have built our entire friendship on mutual love of Plato — particularly his so-called “erotic” dialogues. In that spirit, Becca orchestrated a reading of the greatest of the erotic dialogues, the Symposium. We began by assem…
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