
How to be excellent
Plato and Aristotle can help you resist conventional worldly success, direct your energy and find your own highest calling
by Benjamin Studebaker
Benjamin Studebaker is an American political theorist with a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut (Palgrave, 2023) and Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, November 2024).