The idea that a good leaders need to be able to manipulate others to serve their will underlies popular ideas about success.

This would have surprised Aristotle, the ancient inventor of the field, and Machiavelli, its modern reinventor. Both believed politics were a means to the end Aristotle called a telos ...

Abstract The end of Pres. Barack Obama’s first term coincided with the five hundredth anniversary of The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli. Some analysts combined these milestones and praised the ...