There is a moment at the end of the Roman Civil War when Pompey is defeated by Caesar’s armies. Pompey, formerly Pompey the Great, finds himself simply walking away from the battlefield at the end of it. Nowhere to go, no country left, unnoticed even by the soldiers around him, having lost a lifetime of power in a single afternoon. So, too, on November 2, 2016, Nick Denton would post on his blog that the saga was over, that he had settled, and that he was simply fading back into civilian life. A hard peace, he would call it. A surrender.
