Here’s a shorter one:
Jonah,
The Noble lie, as distorted by the left, is a lie. Plato’s
Seventh Letter said it best — “you don’t write down the highest
things” — Plato had seen Socrates executed by the Athenian state,
and he knew what the Leviathan was capable of if inflamed — Plato
wrote knowing that straightforward condemnation would get him killed.
If you want to read the greatest piece of Political Philosophy on this
Topic, then you simply must read the great elder statesman of Political
Philosophy, James Schall, SJ of Georgetown and his wonderful tribute
To Eric Voegelin called, appropriately, The Death of Plato.
http://www.morec.com/schall/docs/dieplato.doc