Before You Negotiate, You Have To Know What You Want

Shrewdness without a moral anchor isn’t diplomacy. It isn’t even strategy. It’s just mammon with a better press agent. “Recovering the Lost Art of Diplomacy” by A. Wess Mitchell in Imprimis February 2026 makes the case – or attempts to make the case – for using diplomacy. He defines diplomacy as “the use of negotiations …