The interplay between violence, religion, and politics is a central problem for societies and has attracted the attention of important philosophers, including Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Ren? Girard. Centuries earlier during the Italian Renaissance, these same problems drew the interest of Niccol? Machiavelli. In Not Even a God Can Save Us Now, Brian Harding argues that Machiavelli's work anticipates ? and often illuminates ? contemporary...