An old friend who has spent his adult life politically engage’, as the french say, recently admitted he can barely stand to watch or read the news anymore. It is not that he’s uninterested in our evolving fate; it’s that … Continue reading
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If you’re reading this, I am visiting Rome and some of the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. In a way, it’s an ironic place to go to escape our own cut-rate Caesar’s attempts to hasten the empire’s decline and fall. … Continue reading