The Death of a Statesman at Compact Magazine

Spencer: This is a rough episode for me. It's the end of our fiscal year at the Claremont Institute. So I've been spending all week, most of my days, going through annual reviews of people,. A thankless task, but necessary one and a good one. And so our colleague Christopher Caldwell, writing has always writes very interestingly about foreign things. He says Silvio Berlusconi was an earthy populist in post-Cold War Europe who stood up to socialistic technocracy. The eulogy is crisp and infused with Caldwellian themes.