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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
1776–1789
Strahan & Cadell
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The Chronicler of Decline
Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?
by
Ed Simon
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The Hedgehog Review
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March 4, 2026
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America’s Decline & Fall
The founders anticipated someone like Trump partly because they’d been reading Edward Gibbon’s 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
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Jim Sleeper
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Commonweal
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November 24, 2024
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What’s the Difference Between a Rampaging Mob and a Righteous Protest?
From the French Revolution to January 6th, crowds have been heroized and vilified. Now they’re a field of study.
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Adam Gopnik
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The New Yorker
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November 18, 2024
America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is
Anxieties about Trump’s presidency are the expression of a tradition as venerable as the United States itself.
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Tom Holland
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New York Review of Books
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August 6, 2019
The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America
Gravely inaccurate 19th-century depictions of the destruction of Rome are used to illustrate parallels between Rome and the U.S.
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Sarah E. Bond
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Hyperallergic
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July 3, 2019
