As Cicero might warn many a modern politician, your friends can be far more dangerous than your enemies. Not that Cicero has many friends left by time we meet him in Dictator (Knopf, 416 pp., *** ½ ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Cicero composed one of the epigrams by which he is known today as part of his legal defense, in 52 B.C., of a man named Milo: Silent enim leges inter arma, or “The laws are silent amid weaponry.” Milo ...