Why This Website?

I want to show you how the wealthy and powerful rip off more and more for themselves, without even thinking about anyone else. No, actually that's not quite true: they rationalize. They say, "This'll be good for everybody."

They're cooking a recipe for society's destruction. The Romans showed the way back in the fifth century. Their cake (Rome) fell in 476.

Note: the website's main image, repeated on all the pages, is of a Roman ruin in Dougga, Tunisia, and of a street in New York City. Might the second look like the first image someday? The side images are of some recovered columns in Carthage (the western Roman Empire's most important city in Africa) and another street scene in New York.

I used to teach college, but I hated academic writing; I started writing novels. What did I teach? Political Science covering the United States and most other countries in the world, Economics, and a course in Anthropology. My doctorate is in all three fields. I actually trained to teach about countries like India, where I did my research for the doctorate.

I'm much more interested in my freelance and fiction writing. I've written for journals, newsletters, encyclopedias, and I've written many unpublished novels. My interest in writing is in part because of a family heritage, because I'm directly descended from one of the most acclaimed and famous of American novelists.

Several of my most recent novels (Attila as Told to His Scribes and I, Zerco) took place in the fifth century. To download e-books of either, click here. When I did research for them, I was struck by the many ways the fifth century looked like our times, so I began looking further.

This website is the result.

I show how the US is becoming like Rome in the fifth century , because the vision of our rulers (corporate as well as governmental) is so similar to that of the Senators who dominated the fifth century Roman Empire.

That's why this website.