How Dick Cheney Looked on 9/11

On October 13, 1806, Hegel, the German philosopher, looked out his window and saw Napoleon ride by on a horse. “I saw the Emperor—this world-soul—riding out of the city on reconnaissance,” he wrote that night, in a letter to a friend. “It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out to the world and masters it.”