Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire

by Ryan Holiday

It was, as Nietzsche put it, a war of knives against the present age.

Over time, culture can sour. “Creeds, like streams, gather strength as they narrow, thriving on bigotry,” the biographer William Manchester observed.

Scipio Africanus, the general who defeated Hannibal, would say that an army should not only leave a road for their enemy to retreat by, they should pave it. The Romans had a name for this road, the Gallic Way.