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Frank Breslin

Should College Change You as a Person?

An education in the humanities and social sciences can transform us if we want to be transformed because we’re dissatisfied with ourselves…

7 min read15 hours ago

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Frank Breslin

On Managing Slaves: Part 4 — Cato the Elder, Champion of the Old Roman Ways

Cato the Elder, “The Censor” (234–149 BCE) was a Roman statesman and orator. The embodiment of the stern, moralistic, old-fashioned Roman…

13 min read1 day ago

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Frank Breslin

On Managing Slaves: Part 3 — Varro, Scholar & Renaissance Man

Varro (116–27 BCE) was the Roman Republic’s greatest scholar and Renaissance man: general, admiral, quaestor, tribune, praetor, legate…

3 min read1 day ago

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Frank Breslin

On Managing Slaves: Part 2 — Excerpts from Columella’s Treatise on How to Treat Slaves

Columella (mid-first century CE), born of a Spanish landowning family, wrote the most comprehensive and systematic treatment of…

5 min read2 days ago

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Frank Breslin

On Managing Slaves: Part 1 — Why is Slavery Inherently Wrong?

Frons domini plus prodest quam occipitium. A master’s face produces more work than the back of his head (Pliny the Elder, Natural History…

5 min read2 days ago

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Frank Breslin

The Art of Governing: Part 9 — The Irrational Nature of the Human Mind

Ad paenitendum properat, cito qui iudicat. Who hastens to judgment, quickly repents (Publilius Syrus, Maxims, 32). Some can’t stand…

10 min read3 days ago

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Frank Breslin

The Art of Governing: Part 8 — Neoliberalism Against Americans

Oderint dum metuant. Let subjects hate as long as they fear (Cicero, On Duties, 1. 28. 97). “Let them hate me as long as they fear me!” —…

11 min read4 days ago

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Frank Breslin

The Art of Governing: Part 7 — Constituent Services

Non vincitur, sed vincit, qui cedit suis. Whoever yields to his people is always the winner (Publilius Syrus, Maxims, 443). It’s called…

12 min read4 days ago

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Frank Breslin

The Art of Governing: Part 6 — Bad Leaders Harm the Nation by Their Bad Example

Plus exemplo quam peccato nocent. Bad rulers harm more by example than by the wrong they commit (Cicero, On Laws, 3. 14. 32). First, some…

12 min read5 days ago

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The Art of Governing: Part 5 — Leaders Must Be a Moral Example

Etiam oblivisci quid scis interdum expedit. It is wise at times to forget what you know (Publilius Syrus, Maxims, 179). Sometimes it’s…

21 min read5 days ago

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Frank Breslin

Frank Breslin

Frank Breslin is a retired high-school teacher in the New Jersey public school system, where he taught English, Latin, German, and history.

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