Stacey Vanek Smith probably had a terrific elevator pitch for her debut book, “Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace.” After all, Niccolò Machiavelli, ...

Upbraiding his countrymen for failing to obey a national lockdown order, French President Emmanuel Macron decried what he called their “insouciance.” Mr. Macron, who wrote a youthful essay on the ...

Niccolo Machiavelli isn’t generally the first name to leap to mind in a discussion of feminist icons, but according to a new book, he probably should be. “Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, ...

Niccolo Machiavelli was one of the most important 'political commentator' of his time. Even today, when it is Machiavelli’s 551 birth anniversary, his works and ideas are widely read and believed in.

For half a millennium, the reputation of Niccolò Machiavelli has been weirdly, and rather comically, contradictory. More than any other figure in history, he’s a character the world sees in two ...

Niccolo Machiavelli was for Shakespeare "the murderous Machiavel". He was the author of The Prince, that infamous book of advice to rulers that turned traditional Christian morality on its head. The ...

Machiavelli was widely associated with cunning political manoeuvres. A rare first edition of Italian Renaissance diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli's political treatise, ‘The Prince,' is set to go under the ...

Niccolo di Bernardo Machiavelli was the Renaissance Italian who's aptly credited as a founder of political science. He also, of course, has another distinction: His very name is a pejorative. For most ...

The life of a great thinker presents unique challenges to a would-be biographer. Actions and events are the stuff of biographies, yet thoughts, not deeds, are what chiefly make the thinker of interest ...