The Journal of the History of Ideas blog publishes scholarly essays and interviews on intellectual history, philosophy and early modern thought.
HN commenters give no opinion beyond one link to a post on Machiavelli's debt to Polybius, which a reader wanted to read later.
Oooh interesting …
Some searching brings up this: https://jhiblog.org/2021/03/04/machiavellis-debt-to-polybius/.
I’ll have to read and digest later.