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What Ostia Can Teach Us

I found Robert Harris' op-ed in Saturday's New York Times interesting. It focuses on the fall of the Roman Republic, an event that Harris believes was caused by Roman overreaction to a pirate raid on Rome's port at Ostia in 68 BC:
An intelligent, skeptical American would no doubt scoff at the thought that what has [...]