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Are We Rome?
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The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America

by Cullen Murphy (Author) (edit contributors)

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The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic. Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action or a dire... read more

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IMAGINE THE SCENE: a summer day, late in the third century A.D., somewhere beyond Italy in the provinces of the Roman Empire, perhaps on the way to a city like Sirmium, south of the Danube, in what is now Serbia, where several roads converge — good Roman roads of iron slag and paving stone.

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