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America Now, Roman Empire Then
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Occasional Commentary on how current events parallel politics in the later Roman Empire.
- Added on: Jan 15th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Douglas C. Smyth
- Listed in: Politics Society Democratic
- Tags: politics history economics iraq war roman empire
Recent Posts
Dec 22, Democrats Vote With Democrats!
Back in my youth, I was a Political Science Professor at a not very prestigious state university in a far South state. One of my colleagues was even more New York than I was, and his specialty was Political Parties--American Political Parties (unfort...
Dec 19, Senates Destroy Empires
The Roman Senate inadvertently created the Roman Empire, and then became a shell of its former self from the time of Augustus until the 2nd Century. From the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180, until Diocletian in 284, competing Senatorial factions almo...
Dec 16, Health Care "Compromise"
How can health reform without a public option lower medical costs? It hands insurers a huge, new, subsidized, non-competitive market. ...
Dec 10, Doubled World Consumption?
And it's a race to the finish! Who will buy more cars: China or the US? China is buying more now, and probably for 2010, and will be permanently "in the lead" after 2014. Guess why: China's population is four times the US's. And this is cause for ...
Dec 9, Afghanistan\'s Civil War
The Afghan war is actually a civil war that has been going on for 40 years! The roots of it go back centuries. The Saur Revolution (1979) established a pro-Soviet, Tajik dominated state, but the USSR was ousted from the country in 1989. Afterwards, ...
Dec 8, Climate Change
If there is no global agreement about climate change, large parts of the world become uninhabitable and the ensuing migrations will make the Germanic invasions of the Roman Empire look insignificant....
I like this blog. The formula seems to be wordy rant about some aspect of the modern day America, followed by a general statement about the Roman Empire, and the reminder that the Roman Empire fell. More arguments should be made in this way, and I intend to do it more often, because, after all, I don't want to end up like the Romans, and we all know what happened to them, don't we?
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