The opinion piece, which appeared in the online edition of the Times on April 26th, is titled "Meet the New Leader of the Free World."
The leader Mr. French is referring to is Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Mr. French writes, at the end of his essay, that "you cannot threaten the free world and lead it at the same time. No nation can match American might, but for the first time in my adult life, the moral and strategic heart of the defense of liberal democracy doesn’t beat in Washington. It doesn’t beat in London or Paris or Berlin or Ottawa, either. It’s in Kyiv, where a courageous leader and a courageous people have picked up the torch America has dropped."
