Modern Americans have a complicated relationship with the idea of leadership. We understand instinctively what good leadership is, but that understanding conflicts with our mistaken ideas about equality. At the same time, we enjoy pointing to the mistakes of those in leadership over us – whether that person be a shift supervisor in a convenience store or the President of the United States.

So, we know that we need leaders, yet we resent them at the same time. Part of the problem is that so many people in leadership positions are not true leaders.

This podcast compares true leadership with the false leaders in which our modern world abounds.

To read the essays in their original formats, listeners may use the following links - https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/03/when-true-elites-take-charge-problems-get-resolved/, https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/03/imagining-a-heretical-president/, and https://www.returntoorder.org/2023/03/can-chinas-xi-jinping-keep-his-authority-over-a-nation-of-pessimists/.