Posted by Matt in July 25th, 2008 |
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In Madden’s historically linked world, the defeat of Carthage in 204 B.C. is the mirror image of the D-Day invasion of World war II. The contempt the Greeks had for Romans even after Rome saved them from civil war is a historical analog to the Europeans’ anti-Americanism and arrogance even after the American military bailed [...]
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Posted by Matt in June 1st, 2008 |
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Putin may be endangering Russia’s future by revisiting the past.
The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453. But you wouldn’t know it in Russia, where Vladimir V. Putin has been behaving as though the 15th century never ended, as though he is the direct descendant of the Byzantine kings and Moscow remains the “Third Rome” it declared [...]
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Posted by Matt in May 18th, 2008 |
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More than 80 percent of Americans now say that we are on the wrong track, but many if not most still believe that the history of other nations is irrelevant — that the United States is unique, chosen by God. So did all the previous world economic powers: Rome, Spain, the Netherlands (in the maritime [...]
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Posted by Matt in September 25th, 2006 |
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Historian Edward Gibbon blamed Rome’s decline on military overreach, social decadence, and barbarian invasion. Sound familiar? From the quagmire in Iraq to ballooning U.S. waistlines (and debt), to Europe’ immigration woes, the author shows why the sun is setting on the West
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