Boston Globe – The case against sincerity in politics

By R. Jay Magill Jr. | APRIL 01, 2012

“…IN THE LONG HISTORY of political thought, sincerity has, if anything, been discouraged. When Niccolò Machiavelli advised would-be leaders that “those who have accomplished great deeds are those who have thought little about keeping faith,” he was drawing on an ancient tradition….”

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