The American Idea: <div>Returning to First Principles: America’s Machiavellian Moment?</div>

Niccolo Machiavelli, is usually cast as something of a villain for supposedly promoting cut-throat politics. Regarded as the father of modern political theory and science, however, among his many ideas was that when regimes – governments – slip into a state of decline, a return to first principles was necessary to save them. Turning back […]