Can a bad person be a good leader? Machiavelli may have an answer. What if a person is a good leader… and a bad person? In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we unpack that idea through ...

For many years, historians knew of only ten first-edition copies of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince—the controversial 16th-century political treatise—all held by institutions. However, they recently ...

It was an interesting piece by Rick Doehring about Machiavelli’s The Prince, a book famous for influencing world leaders and now President Trump. It has been an influence many times in history, ...

The topic of narcissism has been wildly popular in social media, journalism, and political debate lately. Although less widely known, there has been a parallel rise in interest in the traits of ...

Machiavelli’s Effectual Truth: Creating the Modern World, by Harvey C. Mansfield (Cambridge University Press, 298 pp., $34.99) Harvey Mansfield, not known for timidity, has characteristically titled ...