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May 15, 2025
Ross Rosenfeld
How Trump’s “Emergency” Powers Could Become Permanent
The president is declaring emergencies on everything from an “invasion” of immigrants to a mythical shortage of fossil fuel production. But it’s all just a ploy for him to act like a Roman emperor.
November 16, 2012
G.W. Bowersock
How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome
March 29, 2012
Jacob Soll
History as Fantasy
October 12, 2011
Oren Harman
Early Enlightenment
March 17, 2010
Emily Wilson
Stoicism and Us
August 31, 2009
Edward Luttwak
The Best and the Fastest
February 13, 2008
David Nirenberg
Hope's Mistakes
July 18, 1988
Henry Fairlie
The Shot Heard Round The World

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