Da Empoli, an Italian essayist, journeys through summit meetings and elite gatherings to recount the Machiavellian machinations of some of today’s autocrats, oligarchs, and tech billionaires. The old Western-led order of statesmen, diplomats, and international law is giving way to a world run by a new power elite of strongmen and tech moguls who are cynical, ruthless, self-serving, and contemptuous of the rule of law and the old norms of democratic politics. Moscow, Riyadh, Washington, Paris,