I found this engrossing: Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy - episode 37 of Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast. It is about t

I found this engrossing: Edward Watts on the End of the Roman Republic and Lessons for Democracy - episode 37 of Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast. It is about the Roman Republic's unusual (both in its time and as compared to to today) democratic institutions, and their decline as the republic stumbled towards autocracy. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/03/11/episode-37-edward-watts-on-the-end-of-the-roman-republic-and-lessons-for-democracy/ https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/03/11/epis...