An op-ed in The New York Times warns, as the headline puts it, “America is an empire in decline” and finds a precedent in imperial Rome. The piece, written by the co-author of a new book, “Why Empi…
“Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West,”
Both conservatives and progressives are prone to their own versions of this narrative, tending to emphasize either moral decline or imperial overstretch respectively. The state of America is often mistakingly compared to the fall of the Roman Empire, according to Post columnist Rich Lowry.Still, the Western Roman Empire unquestionably fell, with disastrous consequences for a long time. It’s just that dragging us into it is wildly off base. It weakened itself economically and militarily while confronting challenges from armed bandits on its borders it became incapable of handling as it steadily lost its territory and tax base to barbarian groups.
They don’t, like Roman emperors, need to think all the time about potential assassination and armed usurpers.
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