A Machiavellian Perspective on the Debt Ceiling and Entitlement Programs

A Machiavellian Perspective on the Debt Ceiling and Entitlement Programs

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Few historical figures are as infamous and controversial as Niccolò Machiavelli. Often reviled for his prescriptions of cruelty as a means of maintaining political power, Machiavelli gave us perhaps the first treatise on practical political theory. Indeed, it is the purely pragmatic rather than…

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