QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER 1. Why is politics now out of favor? 2. What does it mean to "never get angry at a fact"? 3. Why did Aristotle call politics "the master science"? 4. What did Machiavelli bring to the study of politics? 5. How are legitimacy, sovereignty, and authority different but similar? 6. Is politics largely biological, psychological, cultural, rational, or irrational? 7. How can something as messy as politics be a science?