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Arches without emperors, the republic and its old fear of glory in stone
A triumphal arch serves no purpose but to say whom the state glorifies. From Rome to Napoleon's Paris and Washington's republic, republics feared the glory of living men, and kept the arch by handing it to the dead, to the nation and to ideas.
Oblivion or Disclosure, What Naming Informers Can and Cannot Heal
When a regime of secret denunciation falls, should its files be closed or opened? From Domitian's Rome to revolutionary France, the texts suggest that naming informers repairs only when it also judges the system that recruited and paid them.
