Machiavellian Necessities and the Fragility of Liberty

Machiavellian Necessities and the Fragility of Liberty
A stone bust of Montesquieu by French sculptor Felix Lecomte (1737-1817) hidden under the foliage of the square Honoré-Champion in Paris. Jebulon via Wikimedia Commons/CC0 1.0
Roger Kimball
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Commentary

In the introduction to their translation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s “Discourses on Livy,” Harvey Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov make a profound observation about Machiavelli’s political wisdom.

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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