Patrick Lawrence: Late-Imperial Duplicities

There is nothing new about lying to Americans to get the empire’s business done.



By Patrick Lawrence
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As I was saying to Diocletian over Prosecco just last week, it is hard to run an empire these days. You have to lie to people more or less incessantly to keep the troops minding t

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