Pity it has in no factual merit. Rome did NOT fall because of an excess of Govt. Mischaracterizing once can be an accident. Doing it again, after being shown your error, means you're distorting my statements on purpose. Please stop -- you're making Dr. Fears look positively honest by comparison.
Professor Fears has had a very distinguished academic career (at Indiana University, Boston University, and the University of Oklahoma) and has an impressive list of academic publications. His Ph.D. is from Harvard. It may be that he gets carried away on a few details but he is a serious scholar...and one of the few conservative professors of that stature in America. There are a lot of leftist professors more deserving of bashing.
I have never met Professor Fears, but once heard him speak at a conference.