Machiavelli, He's Not Passing Judgment, but He Tells You What Happens.

Strauss is a careful, complicated writer. You delve the depths of his books, and you realize that no is really as it necessarily seems on the surface. More importantly, he gives advice. He tells you what to do and what not to do. On this just shows you how giky i can get. But when i was in gradschool, i had this bright idea i was going to underline every sentence of the prints in four different colors. And i did it where i underlined the whole book this way. I used red for the normative commandments. So he's not just a dispassionate analyst. Most of them are given by scholars who like him or to use