Reading Discourses on Livy | Alexandria
Read Discourses on Livy by Niccolo Machiavelli. Wielding raw political realism, Machiavelli's masterwork shatters our moral illusions by daring to examine power as it truly operates - not as we wish it would. His radical notion that good leaders must sometimes do bad things sparked centuries of debate and remains unnervingly relevant in our era of ethical compromise and realpolitik.