Stewie: Machiavelli! You’ve told me nothing I don’t already know! Ah Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Lois: Stewie, those books aren’t for babies. Here, watch the Teletubbies. Stewie: How dare you!

But Art of War may earn Machiavelli a place in today’s Pentagon, thanks to a new edition from the University of Chicago Press, translated by Christopher Lynch, an assistant professor of ...