UChicago student Joe Dickerson draws on his soccer officiating career in studying ‘The Prince’ and philosophy at Graham ...

Few thinkers have been so widely quoted and so deeply misunderstood as Niccolo Machiavelli. For centuries, his name has been shorthand for political deceit—a man who supposedly preached that any act, ...

The name Niccolo Machiavelli is synonymous with political deceit, cynicism and the ruthless use of power. The Italian Renaissance writer called his most famous work, The Prince, a handbook for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julius Caesar was the first tyrant of Rome, after which Rome was never again free. Steve Christo/Corbis via Getty Images That sort ...

The Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli has become synonymous with subtle scheming. And now, an extremely rare first edition of his most famous work, the political manual “The Prince,” is ...

Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...

Machiavelli. Image: Flickr/Robert ScarthWhen politicians are described today as ‘Machiavellian’ the implication is that they are no more than cynical graspers at power for its own sake. Most ...

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) was a diplomat, civil servant, and political philosopher born in Florence during one of the most fascinating periods of the Italian Renaissance. His name has come down ...

Clues concerning Machiavelli’s thinking as to his own immediate personal path lie in one of the Italian Renaissance’s most beautiful—and in some ways most deceiving—letters, which he wrote to his ...

“A Prince who is not wise himself cannot be well advised by others.” “I do not believe that divisions purposely caused can ever lead to good.” No, these are not the sayings of Buddha. They are ...

The term “Orwellian” has always struck me as curiously Orwellian — a mild example of doublespeak that ties an author’s good name to the dystopia he so memorably depicted. (See also “Dickensian” and ...