Musing America’s Fate
Like everyone else, I think about America’s future. Are we near the end of a century-old slide into soft tyranny or is worse yet to come? Can we possibly renew… Read more »
Tag: Machiavelli
Machiavelli on the Deep State Conspiracy
In our Constitutional order we find comforts unknown to many nations. We can go about our lives without concern over a matter that often threatened kingdoms since ancient times: succession… Read more »
Crush President Trump’s Hearsay Accusers
Subtitle: Machiavelli on the Greatest Sedition – Whisper Campaigns As opposed to formal charges from a prosecutor, in which the accused has constitutional protections at his disposal, the accused in… Read more »
Our Remarkable Electoral College
The wisdom of our awkward Electoral College (EC) goes far beyond the matter of relative electoral weight between urban and rural voters. Thank the Framers for doing more than diffusing… Read more »
Machiavelli – Dealing with the Deep State Aristocracy
He who draws his sword against the prince must throw away his scabbard – Italian Renaissance maxim. America doesn’t have a classic aristocracy. But, does it have an order set… Read more »
Jaywalking with Convention of States Opponents
When did a republic extricate itself from imminent tyranny through the election of better or more virtuous people? Perhaps Article V COS opponents will point to the election of President… Read more »
Machiavelli, President Trump, and the Deep State
Subtitle: A Government of Others. Chapter 16 to Book I of Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy is a handy field guide to President Trump’s cagefight with the Deep State. Few politicians… Read more »
Algernon Sidney and the Deep State
History abounds with good things to emulate and horrid things to avoid. The first thing to emulate in free government is to assume everyone in it is a rogue, a… Read more »
God Bless the Lawgivers
The extraordinary longevity of Sparta fascinated 17th and 18th century political writers and philosophers. From Algernon Sidney, to Walter Moyle, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon of Cato’s Letters fame, the idealized… Read more »
Take Rome as Your Example
From a Renaissance fresco, “Take Rome as your example if you wish to rule a thousand years; follow the common good, and not selfish ends; and give just counsel like… Read more »