Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts FPRI’s Jakub Grygiel in the American Interest on Why Le Petit Prince Should Be Required Reading

FPRI’s Jakub Grygiel in the American Interest on Why Le Petit Prince Should Be Required Reading

FPRI’s Jakub Grygiel in the American Interest on Why Le Petit Prince Should Be Required Reading


Jakub GrygielThe Little Prince…points to a primordial source of political order—friendship—that is ignored by The Prince. Friendship—filos to the ancient Greeks—is foundational of social order. Without it, polities are either fragile or overbearing, yet state policies have little control over friendship, or what we moderns sometimes reduce to social trust or social capital. Hence, the Little Prince comes before politics and serves as a limit to it.”

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