Quote of the Day (Ferdinand Mount, on ‘The Flaws of an Upcoming Caesar’)

“We must do our best to head the would-be Caesar off at the pass. We need to be alert to the flaws of an upcoming Caesar: his relentless egotism, his lack of scruple, his thoughtless brutality, his cheesy glitz.”— British novelist and Sunday Times columnist Ferdinand Mount, Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall, From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson (2023)

An especially appropriate quote for the Ides of March…

(The image accompanying this post shows Louis Calhern in the title role of the 1953 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.)