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Professor Josiah Osgood on Cato, Caesar and the Battle for Rome's Legacy

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Virtue of Prudence

The American system is borrowing from classical models and sort of classical thought. It's designed in my view to tamp down the threat of a demagogue, right? The problem though is as you say, certain parts of it can for popular will. If you ignore what the great majority want long enough, you know, that steam is going to burst the whole system potentially.

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