Machiavelli

In some ways, Scar, the villain from Disney’s The Lion King, might seem like the perfect Machiavellian leader. He is cunning, devious, and completely lacking any moral scruples. But I don’t think that Machiavelli would have admired Scar. The sixteenth-century Italian political theorist and father of modern political thought, who once claimed that a ruler must seek to be like the lion or the fox, probably would have found much lacking… Read More »A Machiavellian Analysis of Why Scar Failed