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 ...

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Machiavellian. Decades before The Prince was translated into English, the author's name entered the lexicon as a synonym for political scheming.... Machiavelli, Not Such a Bad Guy? Nearly 500 years ...

Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...

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, ...

Despite the barriers women have broken in recent decades, equality in the workforce has not arrived. The U.S. gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000, female CEOs remain rare and the ...

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