Participating As Citizens, Enduring As Foreigners
Reading Diognetus After the Election
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November 11, 2016
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and the Spirit of the Age
At a crucial moment in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, protagonist Brutus bemoans the “spirit of the age,” a disposition toward tyranny that allows Caesar to assume the power of a king over Rome’s erstwhile republic. Brutus and his friends conspire to defeat this insidious evil by murdering Caesar and restoring popular government to Rome. As modern
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