And Machiavelli hated republican forms of government, don't you know?

Robert Farley points us to the latest chapter in the continuing story of "everything I need to know about Thucydides I learned from the Melian Dialogue."

Let's all remember that while realists argue that the Melian Dialogue captures a basic truth of international politics, Thucydides was cataloging, in his view, Athenian hubris and self-immolation.