Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About This American Moment
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Classics professor Michelle Berenfeld urges us to consider what we can learn from the Roman Republic’s bloody transition from representative government into an autocracy.
A lively pocket history of the Roman Republic’s collapse—and its unsettling echoes in our own political moment.
Americans are obsessed with Rome. Billionaires and manosphere pundits wax on about its military might, its gladiators, its emperors, its greatness.
But we’re telling ourselves the wrong sto...






















