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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: DDH - Measures or Men?
Description: In many ways, the United States always resembled republican Rome. By the last half of the first century bce, the republic was teetering on the edge. Corrupt politics, mounting debt to fund foreign wars, societal  breakdowns that left long held traditional values in disrespect and disregard  left the every day Roman wondering if the world had gone completely mad?
As we look around our nation today, the parallels must be striking. The question is what happens next? Do we recover our republican form of government and manage to solve the innumerable problems that mushroom into full blown cr...