What to wear at the circus: From left, Katherine Heigl, Kerry Washington, Jennifer Lopez and Jenna Dewan-Tatum at this year's Golden Globes (AP photos) As every school child knows, the phrase “bread ...
Primary season is fully underway and the election year is heating up. Then again, do campaigns ever really stop nowadays? There was a time when election years stood out as what Washington talking ...
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WASHINGTON — An ancient Roman poet foresaw former President Donald Trump as a deposed ruler raging to regain power: in a famous line, with “bread and circuses.” Master satirist Juvenal poked at ...
Gilbert Sewall, contributor: I am teaching a course this autumn titled “The Fall of the Roman Empire.” On this account, I am rereading bits of Juvenal’s Satires and Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, and ...
To keep power, Roman leaders used free “bread” (the public dole) and free “circuses” (public entertainments) to distract the populace from rioting when they had real things to riot about. But once the ...
Reality sucks. Seriously. I don’t know about you, but increasingly, I’m avoiding the news because I’m having a lot of trouble processing what’s happening in the world. So when I look to escape, I ...
Primary season is fully underway, and the election year is heating up. Then again, do campaigns ever really stop nowadays? With constant campaigning and candidates trying to outdo each other, we've ...