Dwarkesh Patel

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18,929 appearances 61 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2024 last heard 11 Sep

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Dwarkesh Podcast · Ada Palmer – Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time · 16 Jun 2026 podcast

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Okay, I couldn't get enough of Ada or of Machiavelli.

And so there are a few more questions I wanted to ask you.

Thanks for hopping on again.

Oh, my treat.

We didn't talk last time, I think, about the fact that Machiavelli was exiled and he's writing these books in exile.

Maybe you can give a bit of context around how somebody, we were talking about his diplomatic career, how he ends up in exile and what his plan is once he's there.

You're making the point that he is advocating a viciousness and a realism and a cynicism, but in service of protecting Florence, not in service of a generic prince of any generic principality.

Does he expect that at some point it will be more widely distributed?

Is he writing in a way that suggests that?

I mean, it is a literary masterpiece as well.

I've only read, obviously, the translation, so I don't know what it's like in the original Italian.

But somebody putting in that much literary effort into something that is just supposed to be a very pragmatic manual for a particular person seems a bit weird.

That is so fascinating.

Well, the funny thing is, I think we're returning or not returning.

We are entering a new era.

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