We all complain about the quality of our political leaders. They seem to have lost touch with reality. Politico recently wrote that the G7 meeting in Italy - "6 lame ducks and Giorgia Meloni" - looked more like a last supper than a display of Western power.
But advice on how to fix the problem of political leadership is harder to find. What is the essential skill Western leaders need to regain a sense of reality, and to provide better leadership, diplomacy and statecraft?
The great historian of ideas and political philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, proposed a solution. What can you learn from his 1996 essay, "On political judgment"?
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