Genoa’s Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic by Matteo Salonia (Lexington Books, 2017); 214 pages.
If the city of Genoa had advertised for security services in the 15th century, the job description might have looked like this:
Security-Services ...
In May 2013, I wrote an essay entitled Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Divine Origins of the Free Market. In the blog comments that followed, I suggested that Dante’s ranking of the seven deadly sins—in particular, the ...
The members of the White Rose still speak to us today, and during a recent trip to Munich, I was able to explore the place where this heroic group of German dissidents crafted their powerful message. Some readers already ...
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Public choice theory
Machiavelli would take great comfort in the public choice theory as outlined by economists ...
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For Machiavelli, there is no deed too ruthless for rulers on the fast track to dictatorship. A ...
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On the subject of war, Machiavelli offers simple advice (chapter 14):
Thus a prince should have no ...
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In words that are echoed in the mendacity of today’s political class, Machiavelli enthusiastically endorsed lying. In ...
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Once we understand Machiavelli’s dismal view of humanity, it is easier to understand the ethical universe in ...
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During a much-quoted radio broadcast in October 1939, Winston Churchill commented on the surprise Soviet invasion of ...
After two and a half years of the so-called war on terror, it is disturbingly clear that the attacks of 9/11 were the result of an immoral U.S. foreign policy and that the government’s inability to prevent the attacks ...