The Republic’s Purpose: A Few Thoughts Inspired by Cicero and Machiavelli
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he…
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he…
Machiavelli is often cited as a progenitor of modern politics and the modern state. How might Machiavelli’s thought inform our present and future state? This essay is…
In 1911, L. T. Hobhouse published his brief Liberalism meant for his home audience in Great Britain but it eventually came to be considered a classic treatment…
Thomas Paine is perhaps best known for his effective pamphleteering during the American Revolution, especially in “Common Sense” and “Crisis.” But his major book-length works, “The Rights…
There is a common implication, in scholarly as well as popular literature, that although the leadership process may sometimes be political in nature the best leadership is…
Scholars, practitioners, and more casual observers of leadership often talk about Niccolo Machiavelli in the context of leadership practices. Substantially fewer seem to be well read on…
According to Wikipedia, libertarianism is described as follows: "The term libertarianism originally referred to a philosophical belief in free will but later became associated with anti-state socialism…