Rome vs. the Barbarians
Rome vs. the Barbarians
“Rome vs. the Barbarians”: Part 1 of a two-part essay on the eternal (or is it?) historical struggle between globalism and its antithesis, local/national human self-determination. German novelist Thomas Mann, in his WWI essays compiled as Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, painted this archetypal struggle as a recurrent war betwee…