Studies
Statecraft
Constitutions, factions, the cycle of regimes, and the architecture of political life across the classical and historical tradition.
Statecraft is not policy. It is the older inquiry into how political life can be ordered well — what kinds of regime there are, how they decay and succeed each other, what holds factions inside a single common life, and what the relation is between the character of a people and the constitution that fits them.
The section reads across Plato and Aristotle, Polybius and Cicero, Tacitus and Augustine, the medieval and Renaissance commentators on Aristotle’s Politics, and the early-modern theorists of the state.