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Out with the substance, in with the shallow

Posted on February 15, 2013 by editor, facilitator, decider

Edward Gibbon, in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, summed up his many exhaustive volumes by diagnosing late-empire Rome with an illness of its civic virtue. Civis Romanus stopped caring about its place in society, about … Continue reading →

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