Genghis Khan
First among equals: what makes a great leader and does it matter?
Jared Diamond applies a distinctive approach to a crowded literary space, employing his ‘Hamlet test’ to assess leadership quality. He nominates Shakespeare, the first president of Botswana, Alex Ferguson and the Mormons as his top picks, while acknowledging that there are many other factors to success that tilt the scales
The rollercoaster ride of the world’s most reckless investor
The Korean-born Masayoshi Son – who lost $58.6 billion in 2000 – has a fascination with Napoleon, compares himself to Genghis Khan and is now reinventing himself as a futurist
Reigns of terror
The nomadic tribes of Central Asia eventually created vast empires that changed not only their own world but western history, says Kenneth W. Harl
The case for Genghis Trump
This article is in The Spectator’s January 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. America has a problem, and it’s not Donald Trump. Suicides…
A separation of powers
In 2014, Beijing and Moscow signed a US$400 billion deal to deliver Russian gas to Chinese consumers. Construction of the…
How to rule the world
Genghis Khan, unlike most Mongols in history, is a household name, regularly misappropriated as a right-wing totem. If we recall…
