Authority, Legitimacy & Power

How a Multitude Becomes One: Hobbes’s Leviathan and the Artificial Person

This Leviathan interpretation begins from a feature that the famous monster can make us overlook: Hobbes’s commonwealth is not a…

The Prince and the Theater of Necessity

A serious The Prince interpretation must begin by refusing the most seductive mistake about Machiavelli’s book: treating “the prince” as…

Power, Evil, and the Common World: A Six-Book Path into Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt for beginners is best approached through a concrete moral and political crisis, not through her longest theoretical work.…