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Is America declining? Debatable. Is it declining the way the Roman Empire did? No.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:53 Sources of anxiety
1:34 The Roman analogy
2:32 Superficial similarities
3:41 Invideo
4:50 Are all empires alike?
5:50 Rome fell because...
6:47 Parallels and lessons