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...part of a renewed passion for the classical world. The culture has lately offered up for mass consumption two new histories of the Peloponnesian War, a whacking great biography of Julius Caesar, a film on Alexander the Great (plus a book lauding his business strategy), the current bbc-hbo series on Rome, Robert Harris' recent novel Imperium and a book (with a film to come this year) on the battle of Thermopylae...
...Finally, congratulations to David Simon, the brains behind the hbo program The Wire, which is the finest piece of popular entertainment I've seen this century. The Wire began as a series about the never-ending war between the police and drug gangs in the city of Baltimore, Md., but it has expanded to include the politicians, the schools, the dwindling white working class. Watching the show takes some effort; it's complicated, but every detail is delicious. It is, quite simply, the smartest show I've seen about the drama of public life, the corrosive cynicism of bureaucracies...
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