But the only similar environment in modern economic history can still serve as a decent guide to the future. (businessinsider.com)
If Machiavelli seems a decent guide to Christian politics, it is only because Americans are uniquely tempted by the liberal civil religion he touted — a backward, Hobbesian monster of a thing, wherein civic virtue shapes Christian practice instead of vice versa, trading eternal things for temporal ones. (firstthings.com)
The famous adage de mortuis nil nisi bonum, speak well of the dead or not at all, normally provides a decent guide for us all. (newscientist.com)