Amy Dunne and Cersei Lannister: Pragmatism, Ice and Fire
Gone Girl's Amy Dunne and Game of Thrones' Cersei Lannister run the same pragmatist philosophy from opposite ends: one with a scalpel, one with fire.
Machiavelli
Machiavelli’s Uncomfortable Truth About Power
Napoleon read it. So did Hitler. The Prince endures because it said plainly what most people still won't: politics has little room…
Machiavelli and the Birth of Political Intelligence
Niccolò Machiavelli didn't invent his ideas at a desk. Years inside Florence's corridors of power taught him that governing runs on reality,…