Odd history

The ancient Roman Empire—though mainly just the era of the emperors—is an interesting phenomenon in that it offers a wide variety of allegorical material. Perhaps history is at its most interesting when it has some kind of living connection to one’s own…

Ancient Rome and Liberalism. It is quite remarkable that, when it comes to Ancient Rome, for the past two millennia, historians of ideas, historians, economists, and theologians have been interested almost exclusively in the question of why Ancient Rome fell.…