Make Sumeria Great Again!
Sep 7, 2018 · 4 min read
America’s 5,000-year-old problem

Bit by bit over the last year I’ve been chipping away at Susan Wise Bauer’s 896-page book, The History of the Ancient World: From the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome (2007), and every time I pick it up I’m struck by the realization that our ancestors lived very similar lives to our own. This feels particularly true when the power goes out, or the Internet goes down. I’ve also…

