Entitled Opinions, a radio show for those with a high tolerance for thinking.

Friends, Romans Countryman, we come to you from KZU today with a question.

Have you checked out the great seal of the United States lately?

Look, an eagle with outspread wings.

No, not a bald eagle, symbol of American freedom, but a Roman eagle, bird of the auspices,

representing Jove's divine providence.

In one of its talents, the eagle is clutching an olive branch, in the other a bundle of arrows

resembling the Roman fascis, from which comes the word fascism.

And look, a lot of words in Latin, a pluribus unum, anuit keptis, God favors our undertakings,

a phrase from Virgil's Aeneid.

At the bottom more Latin,

Novos ordos eculorum, a new order of the ages,

another Virgilian phrase from the fourth eclogue.

Why is the great seal of the United States speaking in Latin?

Why is it talking Virgil?

Is America living out a Roman destiny? Do we need to

turn to Rome's past to divine America's future? A question for the prophet Tyresius.

One person who is looking back to Rome these days is vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance.

In a recent interview, he spoke approvingly of Curtis Yarvin, a right-wing blogger and self-proclaimed

monarchist who calls for an American Caesar to take power and dismantle the republic.

And we know who that might be.

In the same interview, Vance declared, referring to the period preceding Caesar's dictatorship,

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