"Mere Domination - On Dick Cheney (1941–2025)"
by #RichardBeck via #NPlusOneMag
"Whatever the war on terror means for history, that is also the meaning of Dick Cheney’s life."
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/politics/mere-domination
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Mere Domination | Richard Beck
“Men make their own history,” Marx wrote, “but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” That may be broadly true, but Dick Cheney got to make history under the exact circumstances he would have chosen.
You Can Just Do Things | Patrick Blanchfield
As ever, the horrors Trump embodies implicate more than just his singular odious person. His “habit of abusing power to force his will upon an uncooperative world”—in David Frum’s formulation over the weekend—is hardly a tendency idiosyncratically restricted to our forty-sixth president. It’s a core feature of the office, especially after decades of bipartisan fealty to the all-rationalizing theory of the unitary executive. No matter how crude or clumsy Trump may be in forcing his will upon the world, his grandiose and murderous entitlement is directly continuous with his predecessors’.
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