Princeton professor Alexander Nehamas has just posted an interesting bit about censorship on The New York Times’ website in which he compares our attempts to censor parts of modern popular culture we fear - but ultimately can’t prove - corrupt our youth (e.g. violent video games) with Plato’s criticism of ancient popular culture (specifically works by Homer and the tragic dramatists) and its consequentially minimal role in his ideal republic. Ignore the repulsive copy-editing, or lack thereof; Nehamas might have a point.