{"podcast":{"title":"The Chris Voss Show","slug":"the-chris-voss-show-4200032","podcast_index_feed_id":4200032,"rss_url":"https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/thechrisvossshow.xml","website_url":"https://thechrisvossshow.com","image_url":"https://assets.blubrry.com/coverart/orig/8090-1782123190.jpg","author":"Chris Voss","episode_count":5,"summary":"THE *OLDEST LIVING PODCAST* STILL PUBLISHING _DAILY_ NEW EPISODES – Nearly 20 years old! The Chris Voss Show Podcast is a top 1% most popular shows out of 3,784,385 podcasts globally. Nealy 40 millions views of amazing interviews of top CEOs, BILLIONAIRES, Astronauts, the hottest new book Authors, TV & Print News & Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalists, Governors, Congress Members and other inspiring and insightful guests that will expand your mind. Our podcast guests are the CEO’s, thought leaders, presidential advisers and the hottest new book authors and journalists from all the large publishers like Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Harper Collins, Macmillan, etc. Interviewed guests include top journalists from news anchors & journalists from all the top media: CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, WSJ, NYT, The Guardian, etc. FTC Disclosure: Some guests pay advertising/production costs to editoralize on the show. See more at TheChrisVossShow.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T02:20:52.509067+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-4200032"},"episode":{"title":"The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About This American Moment by Michelle Berenfeld","slug":"the-chris-voss-show-podcast-lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-by-michelle-berenfeld","published_at":"2026-07-10T06:21:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-4200032/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-by-michelle-berenfeld","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-4200032","url":"https://blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/154295736/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-by-michelle-berenfeld/","audio_url":"https://media.blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/media.blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/ins.blubrry.com/thechrisvossshow/Podcast2807.mp3","summary":"Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About This American Moment by Michelle Berenfeld https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Lost-Republic-Ancient-American/dp/1966302215 Michelleberenfeld.com A lively pocket history of the Roman Republic’s collapse—and its unsettling echoes in our own political moment. Americans are obsessed with Rome. Billionaires and manosphere pundits wax on about its military might, its gladiators, its emperors, its greatness. But we’re telling ourselves the wrong story. In this sharp, eye-opening account, classics professor Michelle Berenfeld redirects our gaze. The Roman Empire isn’t the lesson—the Roman Republic is. Nearly five centuries of representative government, undone by forces that should sound familiar: wealth and power concentrated in the hands of elites, rampant political violence, endless expansionist wars, and a Senate that normalized emergency measures until it had nothing left to protect. One by one, aspiring strongmen seized what the Senate had surrendered, stretching the limits of their legal power, using the military against their own people, undermining elections, and killing their enemies—until one of them, Augustus, gained total control and became an emperor. Berenfeld’s argument is both clarifying and urgent: Rome’s slide into autocracy was not inevitable—and neither is ours. Smart, spirited, and packed with revelatory detail, Lessons from a Lost Republic is a wake-up call two thousand years in the making, a reminder that the republic is ours to protect. About the author Michelle Berenfeld is the John A. McCarthy Professor of Classics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. An archaeologist and fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she has done research in Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Greece, and Italy.…","meta_description":"Lessons from a Lost Republic: What Ancient Rome Can Teach Us About This American Moment by Michelle Berenfeld https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Lost-Republic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3065,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-chris-voss-show-4200032/episodes/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-by-michelle-berenfeld/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-chris-voss-show-4200032/the-chris-voss-show-podcast-lessons-from-a-lost-republic-what-ancient-rome-can-teach-us-about-this-american-moment-by-michelle-berenfeld.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}