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An excerpt from James Hankins’s Virtue Politics, on Machiavelli’s “war on virtue,” was published at Spectator USA; on the Quillette podcast, Hankins explained what Renaissance humanists can teach today’s politicians about statecraft.
At Smithsonian, Ai Hisano, author of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat, detailed the history of federal regulations governing, not the nutritive value or safety, but the appearance of foods.

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Christopher Robertson, author of Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done about It, argued at CNN Opinion that political wrangling over healthcare policy has focused too heavily on who gets covered and not enough on the quality of coverage—at prices affordable enough that those who are “covered” can actually seek the care they need.
On KPFA’s Against the Grain, Accounting for Slavery author Caitlin Rosenthal discussed slavery’s place within the development of American capitalism.
An excerpt from James Hankins’s Virtue Politics, on Machiavelli’s “war on virtue,” was published at Spectator USA; on the Quillette podcast, Hankins explained what Renaissance humanists can teach today’s politicians about statecraft.
At Smithsonian, Ai Hisano, author of Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat, detailed the history of federal regulations governing, not the nutritive value or safety, but the appearance of foods.

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Q&A with James Hankins, author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

With Virtue Politics, James Hankins has delivered a bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance—from Petrarch to Machiavelli—that reveals the all-important role of character in shaping society, both in citizens and in their leaders. We spoke to him about the importance of virtue to leadership in Renaissance Italy—and its relevance to our own time.…

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