Reading 📖 “The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic” by Mike Duncan. The Republic faced issues like rising economic inequality, increasing political
polarization, the privatization of the military, endemic social and ethnic prejudice, rampant corruption, ongoing military quagmires, and the ruthless ambition and unwillingness of elites to do anything to reform the system in time to save it — a situation that draws many parallels to present-day America. These issues are among the reasons why the Roman Republic would fall. And as we all know, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it