“When people were saying that the whole state had been overturned by the quarrel which broke out afterwards between Caesar and Pompey, Cato pointed out that they were wrong; they were merely putting the blame on to what had happened last; the first disaster and the worst had been, not the quarrel and split between Caesar and Pompey, but the friendship and harmony that had existed between them.” - Plutarch [Pompey, 47]
A note to readers: I will be on vacation next week, so the podcast for this article will come out a week late, and normal articles will resume the first week of May.
Fierce fighting broke out in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on the morning of Saturday, April 15th. The Sudanese Armed Forces, led by Sudan’s de facto President, Lieutenant Gen…
