First year Ph.D. student Eli Portella and fourth year Ph.D. student Larry Busk have co-authored an essay which was recently accepted for publication by the interdisciplinary journal Rethinking Marxism. The article, titled “Who are the True Machiavellians? Althusser and Merleau-Ponty Reading The Prince” reevaluates Machiavelli’s relationship to liberal political philosophy from a materialist perspective.