Is Caligula misunderstood? Scott Mclemee reviews Aloys Winterling's efforts in this regard: But what if all of these claims about Caligula were wrong, or at least overblown? What if he was, in fact, completely sane -- his awful reputation the product of a smear campaign?...
contrarian butchery of history
John Dickerson, while ruminating on the possible limits of Barack Obama's "hipness," asks a profoundly stupid question:More generally, shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the.