The name Niccolò Machiavelli is synonymous with the most devious use of power. The thrust of “Machiavellianism” is known even to people who have never read a word he wrote: Wielding power is not for ...

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 ...

On Dec. 10, 1513, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote his friend Francesco Vettori that he had finished a small book we call The Prince. It was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli died, and ...

As ethics problems mount at the Court, John Roberts's response has been too little and too late. Here: Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick ...