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4 Oct 2011, 9:17 am
Niccolo Machiavelli I’ll begin with full disclosure. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 7:36 am
There are so many challenges facing Barack Obama--only Herclues had greater challenges with the Augean stables--but let me suggest that among them is suggested by the following quotation from Niccolo Machiavelli, who, contrary to a common stereotype, was a great theorist of what was necessary to preserve a "republican form of government. [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 9:13 am
In Western culture the name Niccolo Machiavelli has become Machiavellianism, a pejorative signifying the willingness to do anything to achieve desired ends. [read post]
3 Aug 2019, 5:00 pm
I keep thinking of Niccolo Machiavelli, a 16th century Italian writer best known for a short book entitled The Prince, a realpolitik primer on how to rule. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 7:57 am
Overthrowing the health-care status quo — in the sense of endless bureaucracy, lack of transparency and skyrocketing costs — is something we can all get behind, with or without the help of Niccolo Machiavelli. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 8:00 pm
"... to his friend Francesco Vettori announcing that he has just completed 'a little work, On Principalities.' [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 2:33 pm
In other words, as the Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, the first to lay the foundations of the concept of lawfare, wrote in his masterpiece The Prince (1515): “There are two forms of political combat, one using law, the other using force.The former befits men and the latter beasts”. [read post]
30 Nov 2017, 8:29 am
Question: In your prologue, you “propose to explain anew law and the judicial art, much as Niccolo Machiavelli explained power and the ruling art in ‘The Prince. [read post]
19 Jan 2020, 7:00 am
Rulers were commonly assassinated in 15th-century Italy: Niccolo Machiavelli spent much of The Prince discussing how to avoid it. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:11 am
– Niccolo Machiavelli Self-interested reasons, that is Yesterday we saw that under the leadership of overpaid duplicitous former director Michael McLaughlin, the Chelsea Housing Authority aggressively enforced against complaining residents while ignoring those selfsame residents’ complaints and, as reported in the Boston Globe (December 31, 2011), chased out residents for minor infractions that got Chelsea sued by the state attorney general. [read post]
14 Apr 2017, 6:00 am
One need not necessarily root for the opponents of the Constitution (at least in 1787-88) in order to lament that it was not a far better document than in fact it was (and, even more to the point, is the case in the 21st century).In any event, this is not a book about the clashes between “civic republican” and “liberal” dispositions or about the extent to which the Framers’ generation was more under the sway of David Hume, John Locke, Montesquieu, or, for that… [read post]
