We can still prevent history from repeating.
Two thousand years ago, an eminent Roman historian coined the popular aphorism, “Better late than never.” His name was Titus Livius, anglicized as simply Livy. True to the aphorism, he wrote much that deserves overdue attention today.
Livy’s life (roughly 59 BC to about 17 AD) spanned the most consequential period in the thousand-year history of ancient Rome. He witnessed the last decades of the crumbling old Republic and the rise in its place of the imperial autocracy we know as the Roman Empire. He was in his early twenties when the last great defender of the republican heritage, Cicero, was assassinated by a henchman of the tyrant Marc Antony. Livy observed the entirety of the reign of the first Emperor, Augustus. He is best known for his history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, described both in his day and in ours with such terms as “monumental” and “magisterial.”
What little we know of the man himself suggests he was somehow financially well-off, independent, and reclusive. He was schooled in rhetoric, philosophy, and history. He never served in any public position, though apparently, he personally knew Augustus. Writing his massive history of Rome absorbed his adult life.
Though Romans at the time of his writing held his work in high regard, we know that some parts of Livy’s historical accounts were surely based on minimal records, old and dubious oral stories, and even legend. After all, he wrote 2,000 years ago about people and events of as much as eight centuries before his time. “I hope my passion for Rome’s past has not impaired my judgment,” he opined in his introduction to Ab Urbe Condita, “for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds.”
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... Look at just three things we have lost.
planet has a right to come and stay in the U.S. for three years, until his or her assigned court date comes up. As the number of people with pending cases continues to grow, that three years will extend out to five or seven or 15 years. If we get all seven billion people to come here, the court system will break down entirely and maybe we can go back to having a functioning border.
Los últimos tiempos en Cuba nos hacen recordar aquellas palabras de Jesús a los fariseos: “Atan cargas pesadas y difíciles de llevar, y las ponen sobre las espaldas de los hombres” (Mateo 23,4). No se trata de esta pandemia, ni de la otra. No se trata de esta medida, ni del reordenamiento. No se trata de una ideología de género o de cualquier otra. Se trata, como dice el pueblo, de todo “esto”. De la “cosa”. Ya la gente dice en las calles sin mucho miedo: ¡Qué malo se ha puesto “esto”! ¡Qué fea está la “cosa”! Y la gente tiene razón.
El meticuloso camino de Fauci para evitar cualquier información que pudiera vincular concretamente al Instituto de Virología de Wuhan (WIV) da crédito a su esfuerzo calibrado por ocultar el papel de Pekín en este crimen contra la humanidad
Entre los derechos más importantes que integran la Constitución de Estados Unidos figura el derecho a tener un juicio amparado por todas las garantías procesales (fair trial) cuando el acusado tiene que enfrentar cargos ante un tribunal. Esto implica que el acusado sea considerado inocente hasta que se le prueba la culpabilidad "sin lugar a dudas". Por eso, en los casos criminales, se le exige al jurado unanimidad, ya sea para declarar "culpable" o "inocente" al acusado. Cuando no se logra la unanimidad del jurado en un caso criminal, el juicio se anula y, en la mayoría de los casos, debe convocarse a otro juicio con nuevos jurados. En algunas localidades se permite que el jurado presente una lista de preguntas para que se les dé respuesta en una audiencia posterior y puedan así llegar a un veredicto antes de declarar el juicio nulo si todavía no logran la unanimidad.