P.S.: They Don’t Want Us to Vote at All
Anthony Trollope, the Victorian novelist, was an amateur classicist of some competency and a man whose sympathies were capable of crossing centuries. He wrote a two-volume Life of Cicero that was really a defense of the Roman author. Too many of his contemporaries were critical of Cicero, holding him to a standard of perfect consistency they never applied to his enemies Julius Caesar, Mark Antony…