Politics ancient and modern …

… The Iron Lady’s Courtiers - WSJ. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… in the story of the “Senecans” is an affirmation of the importance of political discourse and, unfashionable as it is to say so today, even of the governing elite itself.

Except that  those comprising the governing elite these are unlikely to even know who Seneca was. They are not educated. They are merely credentialed.