Mike Duncan knows how empires fall. He's covered histories most defining collapses, upheavals, and regime changes through the Revolutions and History of Rome podcasts - the latter being a 179 episode, ...

Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed? Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so ...

Two decades ago, when maga was just a Latin word for “enchantress,” I wrote a book about ancient Rome and modern America. The book didn’t touch on masculinity or the birth rate, and it didn’t try to ...

In early September 2025, a claim spread on social media that U.S. President Donald Trump once said the U.S. and Italy have been allies since ancient Rome. One Facebook post (archived), for example, ...

I'm delighted to report that my Hoover colleague (and emeritus professor at Cornell), Barry Strauss, will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. Here's the publisher's summary: A new ...