Kristol on Bloom on Plato

In his newsletter this week, the boss reported that “our friends over at National Review asked several contributors to write brief reflections for their 60th anniversary issue (by the way, congratulations!) about what book influenced us the most.” The boss encourages everyone to take a look at the interesting symposium, featuring contributors like Elliott Abrams, Wilfred McClay, Garry Kasparov. And he reproduced his own answer to the question of what book may have influenced him the most. Here it is, for readers who may have missed that issue of National Review:

The Republic of Plato, translated with notes and an interpretive essay by Allan Bloom (Basic, 512 pp., $22).