Montesquieu

Machiavellian Necessities and the Fragility of Liberty

Commentary In the introduction to their translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s “Discourses on Livy,” Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov make a profound observation about Machiavelli’s political wisdom. “He tries to show,” ...

October 13, 2021BY Roger Kimball

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