The Mask that Power Wears

Xenophon and the world of power.

“And so a wise prince must think of a way by which his citizens, always and in every quality of time, have need of the state and of himself; and then they will always be faithful to him.” - Machiavelli

Reading The Education of Cyrus by Xenophon made an impression on me at a time when I was ideologically treading water, figuring things out in my own think…