Power, Pleasure and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, by David Wootton

Book of the week: Lincoln Allison mulls the consequences of a cultural shift from traditional morality to reason

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February 7, 2019

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Print headline: Parable of the Enlightenment

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