American Presidency

The Uses and Limits of Power: Between Pope Leo’s Quiet Revolution and President Trump’s MAGAlomania

The recent attack and capture of President Maduro of Venezuela by American law enforcement and military, and the first consistory of the world’s cardinals convoked by Pope Leo, show two contrasting approaches to leadership that I wish to analyze in this essay. In the last eight months or so, people have begun to draw a sharp contrast between the two…

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