The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli · first published 1515
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Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): recommend
“…If you have The Prince on your shelf, read it and remember it was written by somebody who was willing…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…The Medici give permission to print The Prince partly because it’s dedicated to a member of the family…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…not read the goofy outlier works like Machiavelli’s Prince, which present themselves as original…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…I’m going to stay, and I’m going to rot, and I’m going to write The Prince, which is my job application…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…it’s not until the 19th century that Machiavelli’s Prince becomes a major global staple…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…Machiavelli, when he’s writing the last chapter of The Prince, is looking around and saying…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-06-16): mention
“…He spends a lot of The Prince, in fact, trying to veil how much more he cares about Cesare Borgia…”
Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time
Harvey Mansfield on Conversations with Tyler (2026-03-18): mention
“…The longest chapter in Machiavelli’s two great works, The Prince and The Discourses on Livy…”
Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy (Ep. 272)
Harvey Mansfield on Conversations with Tyler (2026-03-18): mention
“…call it Lady Fortune, as he does in The Prince…”
Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy (Ep. 272)
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-06): mention
“…and in exile writes The Prince. He dedicates it to the very family that exiled him…”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-06): mention
“…You read the letters he wrote when he discusses writing The Prince, and you read the comments…”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-06): mention
“…When in The Prince he says you can and should do all of these ruthless things to keep power…”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Ada Palmer on Dwarkesh Podcast (2026-03-06): mention
“…We didn’t realize that in the nineteenth century when we were excitedly translating The Prince and reading it as quasi-democratic.…”
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
Sarah Paine on Dwarkesh Podcast (2025-07-25): mention
“…He's talking about it in The Prince. He says, "Forget about love because you can't make people like you."…”
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Vejas Liulevicius on Lex Fridman Podcast (2024-09-21): mention
“…It gets said about Stalin that he used to spend a lot of time flipping through Machiavelli's The Prince.…”
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Ada Palmer on Conversations with Tyler (2023-10-04): mention
“…I want to talk to Machiavelli late in his life about the importance of his work after he’s written The Prince…”
Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship (Ep. 191)
Ada Palmer on Conversations with Tyler (2023-10-04): mention
“…to show how wildly improbable it was that we got The Prince and how different humanity might have ended up…”
Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship (Ep. 191)