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Ep. 114: Crossing the Rubicon

Young Heretics

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Are We Going to Have a Middle Class?

Rome had a law on the books that was designed to distribute land fairly and equally. But it didn't work because of elite capture, says Julian Zelizer. The rich and wealthy devised all these work rounds so they could just hoover up all this land for themselves. This is where you get yourself open for the possibility of Tiberius gracchus,. he writes.

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