Is America the new Rome? Author Cullen Murphy explores the theory in his new book. Cullen Murphy Reads 'Are We Rome?' Cullen Murphy Reads 'Are We Rome?' Cullen Murphy Reads 'Are We Rome?' Cullen ...

The short answer to the question Cullen Murphy asks in “Are We Rome?” (Houghton Mifflin, 262 pages, $24) is no. “Press it too far,” Mr. Murphy himself confesses near the end of his pithy, provocative ...