This newspaper classic is reprinted from the Wall Street Journal, where Vermont Royster’s Christmas editorial has run every year since 1949. The editorial explains the living conditions in the Roman ...

Not long ago, in the year 14 CE, Tiberius Caesar Augustus became the second emperor of Rome. (I mention this because, as we all know, history repeats itself, and so we need to pay attention.) Tiberius ...

Never the preferred heir, Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD / reigned 14 – 37 AD) soon showed why Augustus had wanted someone else. His political inability, poor judgment ...