On the night that Greece’s biggest left-wing party voted for its new leader, all anyone could talk about was pizza. At stake was the future of the Syriza party, which had run Greece at the head of a coalition government from 2015 to 2019. As the votes came in on September 19, one of the candidates, Stefanos Kasselakis, was holed up in his campaign headquarters. Over the previous few weeks, Kasselakis, a former Goldman Sachs associate and shipowner, had emerged seemingly from nowhere to become the frontrunner, and journalists were camped outside his office. As the evening drew on, his team ordered pizzas. Kasselakis—young, handsome, sporting carefully combed hair
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