Book Reviews

• Balaji S. Srinivasan

  Did Christianity take down the Roman Empire? Two canonical sources on this are Gibbon [1] and Nietzsche [2] (“Christianity…undid the tremendous deed of the Romans”). See also Nixey [3]. [1]: https://t.co/WaAugJwarq [2]: https://t.co/ftIBF4DEpm [3]: https://t.co/mlUzdDhtKg https://t.co/mqpvrTWBnD https://t.co/7ZBSW7A4ZILink to Tweet

• Antonio García Martínez

  I recently finished @CatherineNixey's excellent (though polemical) 'A Darkening Age', about early Christian zealots and how they dismantled the Classical world piece by piece. Toppling of statues has always been kind of popular in these moments. https://t.co/l66LvDjSyHLink to Tweet