Tucker Carlson, John Bolton, North Korea, and the Politics of “Killing People”
[T]he ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die. Hence, to kill or to allow to live constitute the limits of sovereignty, its fundamental attributes. —Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics” In June Tucker Carlson accompanied Donald Trump on a trip to North Korea to meet with the nation’s leader, Kim Jong Un. Ostensibly, the meeting was to ease tensions between the United States and the Democr