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Harvey Mansfield at 93 did a 3-hour interview with no break, sharp as ever.
Here is the final product, a masterclass on Machiavelli: the Anti-Christ.
According to Mansfield, Machiavelli is the very founder of modernity, responsible for establishing the very world you and I live in. He is the... See more
Johnathan Bix.comTiberius Gracchus
Mary Beard • SPQR
Pompey the Great
Mary Beard • SPQR
Cicero versus Catiline
Mary Beard • SPQR
Allende was a totalitarian Marxist, the likes of which would be seen in Venezuela in President Hugo Chavez decades later.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
As the great Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.”
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws of Power
high and generous characters are now to be met with, whose opinions are at variance with their inclinations, and who praise that servility which they have themselves never known.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Gaius Gracchus