Ferdinand Mount

May 7, 2020
What We Get Wrong about Machiavelli
In Wolf Hall, while Thomas Cromwell is getting over his wife’s death, he whiles away the time reading Niccolò Machiavelli’s Principalities: “it is...
February 23, 2020
Prime Minister of the World
That, famously, was Clemens von Metternich in 1820, conscious as he always was of the times he lived in and of his own place in them. And how intensely he lived through them. At the...