Arrivederci Roma
The ruins of ancient Rome offer lessons for the present—but what are they?
I’ve spent the past week in Rome mostly surveying the ruins and glories of a great civilization—one unsurpassed, I’d argue, in its contributions to civil engineering, architecture, literature and art, among other things. Nothing lasts forever, goes the cliché, but the Roman empire got pretty close to it, …
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