The End of the Roman Republic/The End of the American Republic (Part III)

Ciceros Tenant | June 13, 2019

What good men may do separately is small compared with what they may do collectively.

Benjamin Franklin

The End of the Roman Republic/The End of the American Republic (Part II)

Ciceros Tenant | June 12, 2019

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The End of the Roman Republic/The End of the American Republic (Part I)

Ciceros Tenant | June 11, 2019

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

Carl Lotus Becker

The Myth of Columbus

Ciceros Tenant | June 10, 2019

Columbus was a poor cartographer. On his first voyage his calculations of latitude were twenty degrees out – he believed he was somewhere in Nova Scotia – and his longitude was a thousand miles in error.

Garth Menzies

John Wilke’s Legacy (Part III)

Ciceros Tenant | June 09, 2019

Political power should emanate from below and not percolate down from above.

John Wilkes (1)

John Wilke’s Legacy (Part II)

Ciceros Tenant | June 08, 2019

More about Wilke's victory for free speech rights.

John Wilke’s Legacy (Part I)

Ciceros Tenant | June 07, 2019

Introducing the journalist, politician and radical who helped shape the free press.