Piggybacking on a

Wall Street Journal article, we discover that Nero’s the hero, and

Vlad the Impaler is not so bad in the revisionist histories of the

day. But how does one of the most contemptible men in human history

achieve such prominence in the British Museum? We take a look at how

Nero was viewed by the early Church Fathers and those who wrote on

the book of Revelation in the first centuries. They thought he was

the Beast. But now, what is this — the return of the Beast or at

least, the beastly principle? This introduces the discussion of how

we look at the good guys and bad guys in history. Should we take

sides?