In 1788, Edward Gibbon set forth in his famous multivolume work, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” his ideas about why that great civilization withered and died. Surprisingly, it involves moral decay, both societal and individual, just as much as it does political dysfunction. While most of us have little control over the global
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