TOM EATON | Musk and Zuckerberg stoke the flames while Rome 2.0 burns

Two men now control the moods and therefore the minds of infinitely more human beings than any Roman emperor could have dreamed possible

14 January 2025 - 04:30

At the start of this year, as I reached for SPQR, Mary Beard’s magnificent history of ancient Rome, I felt some trepidation, and not only because the internet has shot my ability to read books straight to dopamine-addled, monosyllabic hell...

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