In his new history of Rome, Kyle Harper recounts how 6th-century Romans reeled before a new pathogen which wiped out 20-30 percent of the population. Edward N. Luttwak, reviewing The Fate of Rome in Tablet, praises Harper, who cites evidence pointing to Yersinia pestis, better known as the bubonic plague in its much later return as the “Black Death.”
A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”
