The Imperial Presidency

^ Rome's historic empire collapsed, but its psychology infected Western Christianity and culture, which perpetuated its notion of the virtue in violence. " The Deepening Darkness is the result of a seminar Carol Gilligan and David Richards teach together at New York University on gender issues in the politics and psychology of democratic societies. Richards, the author of sixteen books on the ethical and political aspects of law, and Gilligan, an innovator in the psychology of gender development, were joined in fall 2005 by the classicist and feminist Eva Cantarella, Milan University professor of Roman Law, who insisted that they could not fully understand the role of patriarchy in Western culture unless they studied its roots in ancient Rome. This insight brought together two strands in the scholarship on ancient Rome: its public, political, military history and