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E-PrinceAt a flea market many years ago, I paid 50 cents for a badly worn paperback copy of Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince," a book that I had often heard of but never managed to read. Some previous owner of ...
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Indeed so - academic politics are a weird version (perversion?) of the usual kind. They are well-catalogued in Cornford's `Microcosmoraphia Academia'. Though a little knowledge of Cambridge (U.K.) geography and history are needed to understand the finer points, the general principles come through loud and clear. All academic politicians need to remember that "There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing. The argument for doing something is that it is the right thing to do." (op cit, Chap. 7).