A brief history of parties
The political implications of soirées
Ancient rome
Monday
Friday
What America should heed from Julius Caesar’s assassination
On the Ides of March, we should wonder: to what extent does the American Republic circa 2024 live up to the ideals of limited government envisioned by the Founders?
Tuesday
The trouble with the progressives’ proposed wealth tax
The Roman Empire suffered its own version of America’s current out-of-control spending
Wednesday
The lessons of ancient Rome’s dangerous doctors
‘I died of a surfeit of doctors,’ read one Roman funerary inscription. But where did this surfeit come from?
Sunday
Is America a republic in name only?
We are living posthumous lives amid the shells of the institutions that once animated our political life
Monday
New Rome, new home
I wonder whether the moment hasn’t come to begin thinking of Washington the way the later emperors thought of Rome
Tuesday
Walking to Byzantium
The lines that now smudge my map look more like the flight of a woozy bluebottle than the traces of a man with a plan
Wednesday
Classics takes the Red Pill
For online bigots, ancient history is the tip of the Zuckerberg
