Long before President Donald Trump ran for his first term in office, conservative Supreme Court Justice David Souter appeared to glimpse the future in a stunning warning of how democracy could die ...

The republic, however, was beyond saving. Caesar and the Roman Republic were different to Trump and America. Caesar was a blue-blood patrician, which Trump isn’t.

The ultimate lesson of the Roman Republic’s fate is that once you’ve allowed one man to rule as a monarch, even if you pretend he doesn’t, you are past the point of no return.

Like the American one, the Roman Republic was founded on the rejection of a king. Rome had a representative government that, though flawed, was based on the rule of law, with freedom of speech and ...

In the “best-case scenario” the neomonarchist thinker Curtis Yarvin has postulated, America faces emulating the fall of the Roman republic. In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire.

The restoration work on Rusovce Castle, a neo-Gothic gem located in a district of Bratislava, Slovakia, has led to the discovery of architecturally significant historical elements. Thanks to the ...

For example, a massive Roman military defeat at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in 1917, and the global stock market turbulence of 2008.

Rank did not matter: 90 senators, 15 of them who had been consuls (the Republic’s CEOs), were targeted. Sulla declared he did everything to protect the Roman Republic and expand its glory.

March 15th, 44BC. Despite ill omens, Julius Caesar approaches the Theatre of Pompey. But the men inside have sworn an oath. To save the Republic from the hands of this self-styled ‘perpetual ...

In late November 2024, during archaeological investigations conducted in Heerlen (Netherlands), an exceptional discovery was made: the tomb of a Roman soldier named Flaccus. This find, dating to the ...