What would Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1529) think of Donald Trump, we asked ourselves. But the founder of political philosophy didn’t want to talk about Trump. “There’s only one leader in your times that interests me,’ he said. ‘Xi Jinping. If I…

More than a century after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) gives a final interview, to set the record straight.

Nearly a century ago in Munich, Max Weber (1864–1920) gave is famous speech ‘Politics as a Vocation’. What would he say today if he were to give that speech again? ‘I am afraid that there is little reason for you to be hopeful.’