POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Politicians today are borrowing an old idea from early 1900s Milwaukee, where socialists won votes by making sure streets and sewers worked better than anywhere else. Back then, critics joked that socialists cared more about pipes than big theories, but the joke backfired—good trash pickup and clean

Imagine if we looked at Uganda's anti-gay law through the eyes of ancient Greek philosopher Plato. His character Aristophanes in the Symposium suggests that love, including between same-sex partners, is a natural part of human experience. What if we applied this idea to Uganda? Would it change our v