The West is in the throes of its most serious crisis of leadership since the 1970s. In the most recent elections in the UK, voters had to choose between disaster (British Prime Minister Boris Johnson) and calamity (then-Labour candidate Jeremy Corbyn), while voters in the US had a menu of senescence (US President Joe Biden) and malignity (his predecessor, Donald Trump). New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not a patch on the previous one, Angela Merkel, whose own reputation is being revised downward. The EU has a legitimacy-sacking weakness for choosing its leader from the ranks of machine ...