Tag Archives: Edward Gibbon

  The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon is an epic masterpiece that tells the story of how empires end. It is a six volume comprehensive outlook on the last days of the Roman empire, published between 1776 and 1789, at the time of the founding days of the United States. Gibbon studied …

  Repeating the mistakes of the Roman Empire: As the world watches a crumbling America turning third world country, the geopolitical shift to the East seems inevitable. Without justice, governments are no more than a gangs of bandits, said St. Augustine. The West, once striving for Constitutional values such as an independent judiciary, anti-corruption, citizen’s rights, equality regardless of race …

  The Singaporean diplomat and author, Kishore Mahbubani, has said that the greatest failing in modern Western thought is the lack of a basic common moral understanding. This great cultural divide will sap and divide the West in the years ahead. Mahbubani argues that as a result of the Western ethical decline, the West has developed structural faults in its …

  Herland Report:  Sadly, it has come to this. The once so great United States of America has abandoned its former values, lost its law and order and now experience civil unrest unlike anything we have seen in our lifetime. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by historian Edward Gibbon is an epic masterpiece that tells …