Tom Holland

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195 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Jul

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On the Media · The Rest Is History · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

So there haven't been that many. voice-verified

I mean, there's Caesarism, Napoleonism, and it's interesting that all of them kind of involve a strongman voice-verified

emerging from a Republican system. voice-verified

No, I don't. voice-verified

So I am relatively sanguine about the prospects for American liberty because I think it's had a very long innings and has done incredibly well for itself. voice-verified

And I think that there is... voice-verified

Within the character and the myths of the American Republic, there is an inherent anxiety that the Republic will turn to autocracy. voice-verified

And that's because it was founded as a simulacrum of the early Roman Republic. voice-verified

And the lesson of Roman history is that... voice-verified

At some point, a republic will become an autocracy. voice-verified

And so people have been dreading the emergence of a Caesar since the Constitutional Convention. voice-verified

And when Benjamin Franklin came out and people said, what is it to be? voice-verified

He said, a republic, if you can keep it. voice-verified

Right from the very, very beginning, this has been an anxiety and yet people were anxious about it with relation to Jackson or to Lincoln or to Roosevelt. voice-verified

I think, to the degree that I disagree with Dominic, voice-verified

I think that Britain and America do still remain shaped by that common legacy from the 18th and 17th centuries. voice-verified

And both our histories are marked by the tension between what, of course, you know, in the civil wars were parliamentarians who ended up chopping the head of the king and then also decided that actually we'll have the monarchy back. voice-verified

And so that, voice-verified

The sense that you can have a degree of monarchy and have a very thriving democratic system as it emerges, I think, is something that is shared by both America and Britain in its own ways. voice-verified

America, I think, demonstrates that it's perfectly possible to have a monarchy and a republican system. voice-verified

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