WHEN I can manage it, I like to have a fiction and a non-fiction book on the go. At half-term, I devoured The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray, well worth its place on the Booker shortlist. I also flew through Why Cicero Matters, by Vittorio Bufacchi, an accessible, insightful consideration of the Roman statesman who, as the author argues, may deserve far more credit than he’s been given.
The short book charts the politician’s stance against populism, and Caesar, and offers digestible political and social lessons for us today.
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