Upbraiding his countrymen for failing to obey a national lockdown order, French President Emmanuel Macron decried what he called their “insouciance.” Mr. Macron, who wrote a youthful essay on the ...

Niccolo di Bernardo Machiavelli was the Renaissance Italian who's aptly credited as a founder of political science. He also, of course, has another distinction: His very name is a pejorative. For most ...

Clues concerning Machiavelli’s thinking as to his own immediate personal path lie in one of the Italian Renaissance’s most beautiful—and in some ways most deceiving—letters, which he wrote to his ...

The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political manual “The Prince,” is ...

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Stacey Vanek Smith probably had a terrific elevator pitch for her debut book, “Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace.” After all, Niccolò Machiavelli, ...

“A Prince who is not wise himself cannot be well advised by others.” “I do not believe that divisions purposely caused can ever lead to good.” No, these are not the sayings of Buddha. They are ...

MACHIAVELLI MAY NOT have been the greatest political philosopher of all time, but he certainly was the most notorious. Hobbes remains controversial, but, unlike the Florentine, he never became a ...

The term “Orwellian” has always struck me as curiously Orwellian – a mild example of doublespeak that ties an author’s good name to the dystopia he so memorably depicted. (See also “Dickensian” and ...

This book represents a valuable contribution to understanding Machiavelli, by linking his ideas with the life and context in which they were developed. While those analyzing Machiavelli have often ...

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. xliv, 314. Ilus., chron., biblio., index. $24.95 / £20.00. ISBN:0691270627 Engaging with a Thinker for the Ages ...