Maor Levitin received his Ph.D. in Political Science from York University, Canada, with a dissertation titled "The Question of Ethical Leadership." He is currently a Marcuse Society Postdoctoral Fellow.
As is the case with religion, progressive intellectuals tend to look on charisma with suspicion, relegating it to the realm of authoritarian and manipulative politics.
Prophets certainly tend to be charismatic, which suggests that charisma can potentially serve as an index of ethical leadership, but prophets aren’t always charismatic, at least not in an obvious way.
