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VDH UltraDoes the Early Roman Principate (27 BC–AD 96) Sound Familiar? Part Four

Victor Davis Hanson After Domitian, some forty or more of the successive emperors were not Italian born. Most came from the Balkans or North Africa. The Western Empire was slowly eclipsed by the wealth of eastern provinces. But everywhere too much money predominated in the Neronian Age. Imported woods, gilt, and marble were the preferred […]

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VDH UltraDoes the Early Roman Principate (27 BC-AD 96) Sound Familiar? Part Three

Victor Davis Hanson In the world of Petronius, cynicism rules. No one is who he professes to be—not bankrupt poets and pretentious intellectuals, not virtuous widows, not innocent youth. All are Epstein schemers of a sort of like our internet influencers and nobodies who become somebodies with vast audiences in the millions. Petronius’s cosmos (like

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VDH UltraDoes the Early Roman Principate (27 BC-AD 96) Sound Familiar? Part Two

Victor Davis Hanson The century between AD 96–180 is perhaps analogous to our American era of 1890 to 1990 (from the Gilded Age through World War I, World War II, and the Cold War), which saw a century in which America de facto ruled the world, defeated its enemies, and achieved an unimaginable level of

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VDH UltraDoes the Early Roman Principate (27 BC–AD 96) Sound Familiar? Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The formal end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC came when the Roman Senate acclaimed the 37-year-old final survivor and winner Octavian as “Augustus.” He alone had won out after 22 years of deadly civil war (from the 49 BC crossing of the Rubicon by Julius Caesar to the final defeat

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VDH UltraThe Week That Will Be: John Bolton, Part One

Victor Davis Hanson The Internet is afire with all the snarky comments that former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton three years ago offered on leftwing TV, following the August 8, 2022, FBI raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago: 1) He insisted that all of Trump’s claims about declassifying documents were a “complete fiction” and

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