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Ancient and modern

Even Ancient Rome battled culture wars

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

Identity politics empowers people to make all sorts of claims, not because they are true but because it makes them feel superior. ‘All whites are racist’, ‘all empires are evil’ and ‘all men are rapists’ are typically brain-dead examples of this increasingly popular genre. Classical elites were equally susceptible to fabrications of self-importance.

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