Mortal RepublicEdward J. Watts
Mortal Republic
by Edward J. Watts · first published 2018
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For a detailed version of this argument, I recommend Edward J. Watts' Mortal Republic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39088591-mortal-republic
on “U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation” ↗If anyone came here looking for actual analysis of how Roman history can inform us about the situation in the US I would recommend this review of Mortal Republic by Edward J Watts (The book itself is also very good) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/24/books/review/edward-j-wat...
on “The ghost of Ancient Rome haunts America” ↗One of the books I'm currently reading is Edward J. Watts' "Mortal Republic - How Rome Fell into Tyranny" which details how Rome the republic transformed into a dictatorship. It is intriguing, parts are like the TV-series House of Cards with an abundance of dirty tricks pulled…
on “Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutions” ↗…sounds familiar, well, that’s because the parallels to our current political moment are striking. Edward Watts, a historian at the University of California San Diego, has just published a new book titled Mortal Republic that carefully lays out what went wrong in ancient Rome — and how the lessons of its decline might help save fledgling republics like the United States today.
on “The Real Class War” ↗…[1] I remember reading about declining trust of Americans in our institutions more broadly but without digging through my notebooks I’m not certain precisely where. My guesses would be either Watt’s “Mortal Republic”, Lukianoff’s “The Coddling of the American Mind”, or maybe Putnam’s “Bowling Alone”. Someone with better recall than I have would probably know. I think the pandemic is more of a “straw that broke the…
on “Covid-19 and other pandemics require a coherent response strategy” ↗