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Lately I’ve been reading about the collapse of the Roman republic in the last century BCE. Some historic documents (Cicero’s Letters to Atticus) and some thoroughly-researched historical novels (Colleen McCullough’s ‘Masters of Rome’ series). The parallels with today’s situation in the US are compelling. Politics then as now was rife with corruption, mangled by the …

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