History Lessons: Crassus & Caesar

Source: found floating on the web. I don’t recognise the artist’s signature on the bottom.

The above cartoon was floating around the internet during the California wildfires of early 2025. Those fires are a tragedy, as is any loss of human life and natural disasters. Having gone through Australia’s “Black Summer” in early 2020, I feel for all my friends in California and hope they are OK.

That said, the cartoon above is emblematic of a common sentiment these days, railing against late-stag...