Who’s Afraid of Machiavelli?

With performances from Peter Capaldi, this documentary marks the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s notorious book The Prince. Famous for lines like ‘It is better to be feared than loved’, The Prince has been a manual for tyrants from Napoleon to Stalin.     But how relevant is The Prince today, and who are the 21st century Machiavellians? Alan Yentob talks […]

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