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Tom Holland

Tom Holland is a British writer, historian, and broadcaster. Among his many books are Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (2003), Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (2008), and In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World (2012). His latest book, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, will be published by Basic Books in October. (August 2019)

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America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is

America is not Rome. Donald Trump is not Commodus. There is nothing written into the DNA of a superpower that says that it must inevitably decline and fall. This is not an argument for complacency; it is an argument against despair.

August 6, 2019