I was hoping to see more specific criticism from someone claiming to be an expert in 5th century Rome.<p>But all I see is a left-wing professor unhappy with insufficient PC-ness of someone&#x27;s argument (too Western-centric, not afraid to use the &#x27;us-them&#x27; language, etc).<p>His one real point is that the Rome collapsed because of partly internal and partly external factors. That&#x27;s certainly true - but it was the barbarians who ultimately sacked Rome and not a civil war that did them in.