The trial of the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik might have met with Plato’s approval — for the time being.
In his last work Laws, Plato provided a detailed description of the vision that would inform Magnesia, his unchanging, perfect utopia, covering everything from size, population, occupations and education to religion, laws and government.
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