Niccolò Machiavelli is viewed in the popular imagination as a sinister figure who dispensed cynical advice to ambitious politicians on how to achieve and exercise power. His reputation among scholars ...

Once again, with the assistance of the spirit medium in Florence, I was able to summon the great political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli from the netherworld where he mournfully dwells. Our previous ...

I got some books on tape from the library to keep me company on car trips while my husband is gone. He laughed a one of my choices, saying that it was a tad dense. But I thought lectures on the ...

Niccolo Machiavelli was for Shakespeare "the murderous Machiavel". He was the author of The Prince, that infamous book of advice to rulers that turned traditional Christian morality on its head. The ...

I’m Charles Lane … Round 35. (The previous sentence is transcribed word for word without any omissions or alterations.) Fortune, Machiavelli wrote, is the ultimate X-factor in politics, like “one of ...

An unconventional lecture given by an associate professor of strategy at the United States Naval War College, Karl Walling, got him placed on academic leave. A video of the lecture circulated on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “The Malice of Fortune” is woven into a galvanizing era, the Italian Renaissance, where intrigue, politics and science are in full flower. A Borgia, grieving ...

My guess is that President Donald Trump has never read Machiavelli and therefore knows nothing about his political writings. If he did, he might recognize in Machiavelli some of his own previous good ...

The headline on the YouTube video clip of Karl Walling's lecture in May says simply: "U.S. Naval War College Professor Advocates Rape." As a result of some of the comments in the clip, the Naval War ...