Sean Elling

This week on The Gray Area. What advice would Machiavelli have for politicians today?

Even in a stable democracy, people are going to be fighting all the time about what kind of values do you want in there? Rich and poor, you know, how much should people get taxed? That's an eternal problem of democracy. And he says, you need to have institutions where everyone can debate that and checks on people getting too powerful.

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If it's a behavior, why not change it? This week on The Gray Area, I talk to Olga Hazan about our personalities and whether we can change them. Listen to The Gray Area with me, Sean Elling. New episodes every Monday, available everywhere.