Prof. Schlevogt's Compass No. 51: Persian Armageddon, rewired - Seven repercussions of the Iran war

The US and Israel are waging a war of choice with global consequences: eroding norms, imperial decline, and a world tilting toward disorder. Dark rumor has long held that the Roman emperor Nero set Rome ablaze in search of inspiration for a song on the destruction of Troy. Judicious historians and classicists dismiss this account as apocryphal.