Frank Breslin·Feb 14, 2025Public Office Reveals a Man’s Character. Magistratus indicat virum.Give him power and he’ll show his true colors. Will he use power wisely or let it destroy him? Power can do strange things to a person…
InAge of AwarenessbyFrank Breslin·May 14, 2024The Art of Governing: Part 6 — Bad Leaders Harm the Nation by Their Bad ExamplePlus exemplo quam peccato nocent. Bad rulers harm more by example than by the wrong they commit (Cicero, On Laws, 3. 14. 32). First, some…
InAdam’s NotebookbyAdam Roberts·May 12, 2023Robert Browning, ‘Cleon’ (1855)‘Cleon’ was first published in Men and Women (1855): a lengthy dramatic monologue put into the mouth of a fictional Greek poet from the…A response icon1A response icon1
Frank Breslin·Apr 8, 2023The Romans on Governing: Learn to Take AdviceMagistratus indicat virum. Public office reveals a man’s character. Give him power and he’ll show his true colors. Will he use power wisely…
InThe First PhilosophersbyDaniel W. Graham, PhD·Feb 6, 202313.1 Victory at PylosNow in its eighth year, the Peloponnesian War continued unabated on more or less equal terms, with each side striving to get a strategic…
Frank Breslin·Nov 20, 2022How Aristophanes Exposed Corrupt Politicians[Hamlet to Polonius on the arrival of the actors at Elsinore]: Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them…
