Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister who surprised the world: ‘Public life has become dehumanized’

Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister who surprised the world: ‘Public life has become dehumanized’

In a time when reality often seems like an improbable dystopia, Jacinda Ardern, 45, gives the impression of arriving from another world. A world that championed the idea that power could be wielded differently. A world where empathy wasn’t a weakness, but a strength. A world that fell in love with the governing style of the young prime minister of a small, remote country, almost invisible on the news map, the antithesis of the hyper-masculine le…