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At the end of his magisterial book “How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower,” Adrian Goldsworthy compared the fate of imperial Rome with that of the contemporary United States.
Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”