December 2006

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Machiavelli for Our Times

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December 28, 2006

For the past twelve years, I have this ritual in which every December I reread some work of Machiavelli. This year it was the Discourses. What struck me this…

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An Experiment in Counter-Stupidity

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December 8, 2006

Originally I had proposed to do my third book on the history of human stupidity. It would basically be an offshoot of the transgression part of the 48 Laws,…