The Right Amount of Crazy

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News Source : The New York Review of Books

News Summary

  • Is it possible for someone to act the lunatic while actually being one?
  • In Joseph Heller’s novel, claiming to be crazy is taken as evidence of sanity.
  • For Trump, he is thus a mad King Lear, an (almost eighty-year-old) monarch on the raving raving.
  • He has chosen “to put an antic on the antic,” as he put it on the first term of his first term, his attorney William Barr says.
  • Barr: Trump sees himself in William Barr, who served as his attorney general.
In January, when The New York Times asked Donald Trump whether there were any limits on his global powers, he replied, Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. Since whatever moralit [+17810 chars]

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