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Bromwich says Shakespeare knows nihilism, including Machiavellian nihilism, but portrays it as one recurrent human possibility rather than endorsing it as his own final wisdom.
Jiang presents Machiavelli not simply as an amoral strategist but as a democratic Florentine who wrote The Prince to raise political awareness in a republic.
"um i also just from b from having visited wales in certain parts of scotland where the mists are um on a twilight time..."
"All right? You also have Niccolo Machiavelli, who we still read today. His most famous work is called The Prince. And The Prince is..."
"It just reminds me, when I was reading about Machiavelli, there was at the time, some guy called Valentino Borgia. He got a letter..."
"...a real public argument. I mean, it could be written by Machiavelli. And the entire idea is that America will now start to leverage..."
"...a big student of history from the Great Depression to Nicola Machiavelli. I think he's got a bad rap. Sun Tzu, you know, a..."
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
Jiang starts with a tactical question about Trump and Venezuela, but the interview keeps widening until Venezuela becomes only the first front in a larger story: a Monroe Doctrine empire that prefers calibrated coercion...
Stephen Akela invites Jiang on to explain how he predicted war with Iran, but the interview keeps widening until prediction becomes a whole model of late empire: a debt system that cannot tolerate peace,...
The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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