Livestream at 4:30 PM ET Today: Machiavelli on Women, Virtue, and Fighting on "Get Lit"
Brad and Matt's last livecast on "Discourses of Livy" has lessons for both Democrats and Republicans
It doesn’t mean what you might think, but “How a State is Ruined Because of Women” is one of the chapters in Book III of “Discourses on Livy,” Niccolo Machiavelli’s masterpiece on governance and stability. Brad Pearce and I will start wrapping up the great book today at 4:30 pm ET, at the links below:
Or on X @mtaibbi or @waywardrabbler.
There’s an abundance of interesting material and brilliant writing in this last section from Machiavelli’s sweeping book, including a sagacious chapter titled “That the Faults of Peoples Begin With Their Princes” and counterintuitive passages like “the most useful thing in a free society is a way to keep the citizens poor.” Mostly there’s wisdom and warning in Book III, which looks at the ways even great societies fall, which they must, as “it is impossible to organize an everlasting Republic.” Please tune in if you can, and if you haven’t done so, pick up a copy of our next book, the hilarious and horrifying Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.. Brad is a great addition.. and a very appropriate foil! Thanks to both of you,
My appreciation for Machiavelli has been renewed..
The serious thought "I wish women had never won suffrage" first entered my head in September of 2018. It has only grown ever since. Yes, Matt, many of us are very serious about this. You should be too.
At the.moment, there is no concrete pathway I have heard or can imagine for achieving this. Nevertheless, I believe it is inevitable. Our God clearly wants it (read the NT and tell me otherwise), and it is clearly in everyone's human interest.
Suffrage is one of many many issues between the sexes that need to be resolved through Christian prayer and dialogue. When enough of us pray on it, proclaim we want it, and simultaneously demonstrate Christlike qualities of love, patience, and a discerning rare whip to women, the path will emerge.