"The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails. Here’s why she didn’t." Washington Post editorial
"Both sides, in my opinion bear a lot of responsibility for the political collapse that has led to the election of Donald Trump. Like my fellow historians Luigi Albertini, Fritz Fischer, and Thucydides, I have always been the kind of patriot who believes in being hardest on his own country--and the kind of partisan who believes in being harder on his own side. Our crisis demands no less." DK
"In the recent seminar of campaign managers from both sides at Harvard's Institute of Politics, one of the Clinton campaign managers said she would rather have lost the election than have made the kinds of appeals the Trump camp made. I do not think that Clinton should have taken any of Trump's provisions, but I do think Democratic politicians have to realize that there is nothing noble or beneficial about losing on behalf of intellectual elite values that too many voters in swing states do not share." DK
Ciceronian virtue does not exist in a social vacuum.
Put another, perhaps misleading, way, as an ideal, it fails in a fallen world.
Brutus and Cassius were hardly, themselves, disinterested republicans.
Marc Anthony, on the other side, the same.
Further, the Augustan Age that followed was hardly as bad as the Ciceronians had feared.
Our own age, however, will hardly be an Augustan one. Our Augustan Age died, either in 1760, or in 1914, depending on how you think.
Our own age, however, will hardly be an Augustan one. Our Augustan Age died, either in 1760, or in 1914, depending on how you think.
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