The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – was written ""with a tiny bit of cribbin' / from the works of Edward Gibbon"". In 1995, an established journal of classical scholarship, "Classics Ireland", published punk musician's Iggy Pop's reflections on the applicability of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" to the modern world in a short article, "Caesar Lives", (vol. 2, 1995) in which he notedAmerica is Rome. Of course, why shouldn't it be? We are all Roman children, for better or worse ... I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins – military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial –
Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire by , and the philosopher Adolf Grünbaum's "The Foundations of Psychoanalysis" (1984). He accepts Elizabeth Thornton's argument, made in "Freud and Cocaine" (1983), also published as "The Freudian Fallacy", that Breuer's patient Anna O. suffered from tuberculous meningitis. "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" was first published by Viking Press in 1985. The book was published by Pelican Books in 1986. In 2004, a revised edition with a preface by Hans Eysenck's widow, Sybil Eysenck, was published by Transaction Publishers. "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" received a positive review from Paul Stuewe in "Quill & Quire", and