How to Be a Truly Terrible Leader
What Caligula, Julius Caesar, and the bad Roman emperors can teach us
The Roman biographer Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus believed power doesn’t corrupt so much as it allows one’s worst, preexisting instincts to go unchecked. His epic biography, Lives of the Caesars, showed how power made the emperors of Rome feel free to indulge their own passions and pursuits…