This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to the world. These messages are broadcast on TV, transcribed, and
The first world war was a kind of cultural suicide that destroyed Europe’s eminence. Europe’s leaders sleepwalked – in the phrase of historian Christopher Clark – into a conflict which none of
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Following excerpts adapted from the author’s most recent book, The Leadership, published by Penguin Random House Any society, whatever its political system, is perpetually in transit between a past that forms its
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