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Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
‘Good emperors’ and ‘bad emperors’?
Mary Beard • SPQR
Curtis Yarvin is mistaken when he says that Apple can produce iPhones because it's a monarchy. There are millions of firms ("monarchies") in the world that can't produce anything nearly as impressive as iPhones, from the laundromat down the street to Boeing.
Apple is the result of a decades long evolutionary process fac... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comTowards a new history – of emperors
Mary Beard • SPQR
In a controversial speech by Lee Kuan Yew who served as the Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 – 1990, he has a really great line about conviction:
“I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind, an inability to chart a course. Whichever way the wind blows. Whichever way... See more
That the shogunate should have asked the emperor’s wishes, and that the emperor declined to be extravagant because of the national emergency, shows how great a change had occurred not only in their relations but in the emperor’s awareness of political developments.
Donald Keene • Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
it took only a little readjustment, and some appropriate vilification of the last man on the throne, to continue as a welcome guest at the new emperor’s dining table, still creeping up the ladder of senatorial power. Even Tacitus, a particularly vitriolic critic of Domitian, admitted that his own career had prospered under his hated rule. It is ano
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