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Leadership

The expert fails because he knows more than the wise – he has a complete grasp on the theory and all its particulars, and assumes that alone should be good enough. The assumption is reinforced with a presupposition: if the “theory*” doesn’t work, something is wrong with everyone and everything else. Finding that wrongness is

On Disraeli: Some Random Thoughts on Conservatism and Leadership

(Originally posted at WritingUp on 2006-06-28.) The quote below is from The New Yorker’s review of several new books about Disraeli. I know nothing about the man, and my comments are really speculative: “Trollope’s Daubeny [his Disraeli character] is certainly not a man of principle, but the novelist sees him as something more than an