YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger

Reading Dan Rosolini's book "Cato the Younger: Rome's Last Republican", one can't avoid thinking about today's events. The sad state of our politics, where those in the national administration have lost all sense of decency. Virute, the old-fashioned and passe ideal of decent households, has long been dismissed as a weak, outdated, and useless principle. Nobody (nearly) thinks that seeking a virtuous life is a good idea.