Leadership and the Humanities

Abstract

Imagine the following: For half a century a small country has been under the oppressive thumb of an empire so violent that a president of the United States names it an “evil empire,” a designation, controversial in the president’s own country, but endorsed overwhelmingly by those trapped within this empire. There is no political activity. No religious freedom. No free press. No independent entrepreneurship. Labor unions cannot organize. All the institutions of civil society, including the family, have been penetrated and compromised by the authoritarianism of the stifling order under which people labor.