[The Critic] Milei's Mission

To hedge against the odds of an austerity-induced depression, the “madman” President should think beyond the material — and govern as a conservative.

Though few in the progressive West guessed it, five Sundays ago in the sweltering mid-December heat of a decrepitly elegant Buenos Aires, an economically failed state became leader of the free world. If surprise and mockery — followed by indifference — was the initial complacent response of many in the English-speaking press, they were sharply reminded of the seriousness of the revolution in thought on Wednesday, as Argentina’s new president took to the world stage at Davos to warn the West that “collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world”.

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