seanessay.com Something I heard at my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, one open to the public, has stayed with me. Of course, I wouldn’t reveal to you what someone confessed, even if they were anonymous, but… today I think it would be Okay to tell you: partly because this was way back in the 20th century, […]
Romans Lost Their Republic As Virtue Fell to Vice
My dad’s 1930’s schoolboy history books dwelt on Rome. My childhood memory of the texts might be wrong, but… Seeing US politics, I am remembering an ancient Roman governor of Sicily, Gaius Verrus, a most despicable man. I would invite you to think of Fred Flintstone’s world, for the Romans had a world like Fred’s, […]