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Unlimited power in the hands of limited people,’ wrote Alexander Solzhenitsyn, ‘always leads to cruelty. It is not that evil ...

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I wrote on X that, ‘To position oneself for leadership of the Liberal Party, one must distance oneself from Christ, ...

The first time I was teaching leadership in Bhutan, for our end-of-course celebration (held two nights before I did the long ...