Fireside Friday, November 6, 2026

Hey folks! Fireside this week, as we’ve (finally) brought the Hearts of Iron IV (I, II IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) series to a close. We may have rather more firesides and even some gap weeks in the next month or two, both due to the end of the semester but also due to some personal schedule disruptions. Still, I plan to try to keep to schedule as much as I can, and we should be back on our regular schedule in January. Percy and Ollie in the office. At long last, the re-flooring required by the summer water-incursion has been completed, so the new bookshelves are up and the books are on them. For this week’s musing, I want to expand on something I wrote on social media, tackling the notion that part of the collapse of the Roman Republic was ‘cycles of judicial retaliation’ or ‘weaponization of the courts.’ In particular, this gets offered in the context of the January Crisis of 49 and Julius Caesar’s decision to march on Rome, thus reopening the Roman civil wars. The way this gets presented…

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