Like Karate Kid: Politics can be like martial arts, says the writer – the true essence is to transcend performativity and, if necessary, go all the way to take out an opponent. — Agency
“A PRINCE must acquire the nature of both; if he possesses the qualities of one without the other, he will be lost,” early Renaissance thinker Niccolò Machiavelli counselled half a millennium ago.
Machiavelli was emphasising the dual nature of modern political virtue: “Therefore, as a prince he is obliged to know how to act like a beast, he should [both] learn from the fox and the lion.”
