16 Ways Rome is a Mirror of Current America by Oliver DeMille

Published: Wed, 08/28/13

Social Leader Weekly


16 Ways Rome is a Mirror of Current America
 
 
 
Studying history is always the best way to understand our current world and current events.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Reading Livy's classic, History of Early Rome, this last month has been very enlightening. There are so many parallels between Rome and current events in America.

Burke really was correct: if we don't read history, we are doomed to keep making the same mistakes.

Here are some of the most striking lessons I learned as I studied Livy the past few weeks:

 
 
 
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Oliver DeMille is the co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of TJEd.
 
 
His most recent book (with co-author Orrin Woodward) is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller, LeaderShift: A Call for Americans to Finally Stand Up and Lead.
 
Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. 
 
He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.  
 



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