The authors of a new anthology argue that we can understand and counter authoritarianism’s rapid expansion today by looking at culture in the time of Julius Caesar. In the new anthology, edited by ...

A consensus in our fractured body politic is that democracy is in peril. Yet a 2021 poll found that 42 percent of Republicans viewed Democrats as a "serious threat" to democracy, while 41 percent of ...

With one of the largest and most significant empires in history, the Romans ruled territories across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for more than a thousand years. Their legacy lives on ...