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CICERO writes for close reading in an age of noise. This column by a direct descendant of Cicero pays homage to the great Roman orator by treating current events as a palimpsest—where today’s headlines overwrite, but never fully erase, older patterns of power, language, and fear. Through essays that blend political analysis, cultural criticism, and literary attention, it seeks to recover irony, ethical clarity, and the civic value of words at a time when democracies tend to crack quietly, long before they fall.

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