When we talk about “leadership” what do we mean? The answer is obvious. The leader is the hero who leads his band of brothers into the fight of life or death. He is the “Man in the Arena,” in the words of Theodore Roosevelt.

Leadership has to do with the fact that, up until the day before yesterday, the only thing that human males did was to sharpen their weapons, hunt for a bit of meat, and defend the border against the tribe or band next door. Just like chimpanzees, where the males defend the food-growing territory against the troop next door. It’s all about the babies. The more territory, the more babies the females produce.

That was in the olden time. In recent times, women have emerged into the public square, and German sociologist Georg Simmel predicted a century ago that women would transform the public square to suit “a more feminine sensibility.”

But what does that mean, in real life? The difference between men and women is rigorously explained in “Academia is Women’s Work” by John Carter. Simply put,

If you want your society to produce transcendent excellence in a given field, the only way to do so is to attach a competitive male status hierarchy to it…

Conversely, if you want reliable........

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