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The Importance of the Purple
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|June/July 2025
Massimo Pigliucci looks for threads of integrity in a morally compromised world.
In the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Rome, few stories better illustrate the ideal of moral courage than that of Helvidius Priscus, a Roman senator who faced Emperor Vespasian with remarkable fortitude.
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