I recently read a David Brooks column where he was comparing Machiavelli to the better parts of Ted Cruz. It struck me as an incoherent column. He clearly didn't understand who Machiavelli was beyond a comic book characterization, and I'm still searching for anything good to say about Ted Cruz. A...
The lecturers do a marvelous two person presentation. By switching back and forth and even interrupting each other to show how Dante felt in the Inferno when he was being rudely interrupted, this can be a very entertaining lecture and is best listened to over a day or at most two days.