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Livestream at 4:30 PM ET Today: Machiavelli on Women, Virtue, and Fighting on "Get Lit"
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 wrapp...
Listen to This Article: Post-Trump, Will Snobbism Still Work as an Electoral Strategy?
The New York Times keeps setting new records for snootiness
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“Get Lit” Takes on Immigration, Foreign Wars, and other themes of “Discourses on Livy”
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“Get Lit" June 18, 2026: Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy," Book Two.
Watch now | Brad and Matt on how the Roman Empire was and was not like America.
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Listen to This Article: To an Ivy League Professor, Who Doesn't Understand "Equality"
Narrated Version | A Columbia professor writes a dumb column, in anticipation of what will likely be humorously bad book
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Ford Fischer is a filmmaker, videojournalist, and the editor-in-chief of News2Share, where he specializes in collecting raw footage and livestream of political activism.
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