🎭 Culture Sep 8, 2026 · Elizabeth D. Samet

Chief Misunderstanding

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Matter? by Jared Diamond; Mariner Books, 288 pp., $32
Watchers of HBO’s House of the Dragon encountered a surprise in this season’s third episode. Having won a civil war, Rhaenyra Targaryen ascends the throne of a country scorched by clashing armies and dragon fire. The victorious queen is “awash” not in the blood that sometimes spatters her but, as she explains to one of many petitioners, “in dilemmas and deficiencies.” The capital is in

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