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…
The Next State
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…
Hobhouse and Leadership: A Consideration of Liberalism
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…
A Brief Reflection on Thomas Paine
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…
Leadership as a Political Process
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…
Leadership and Machiavelli
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…