Socrates and the Bodybuilders

How Plato's Ion dialogue helps us reckon with a recent online controversy, and the broader feelings about training the human physique in general.

Another free article, another month-old twitter controversy, right? I haven’t actually heard anyone complain about the formulaic nature of how I come up with these discussion points, probably because there is so much variety in between the monotony, but some of these have been so easy to write that it feels like cheating. The topic du jour is the physiq…