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The only way for the liberal regime to survive is to take a good look at itself through the eyes of the Machiavellians.
Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began strategising and negotiating even before a pontiff died.
Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...
On May 3, 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a ...
By Evelyn Uddin-khan A long time ago, a young man, disappointed with his political life, wrote a treatise on how to seize control of a country and maintain life-long power as the sole ruler of that ...
As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead ...
It’s Danny Kind, and he’s not even Catholic. But he’s in a college class that simulated the conclave of 1492. (There were ...
Our Disruptor-in-Chief has grabbed the bloated federal corpus in his teeth and given it a good hard shake for 100 days. Many ...
Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...