Administration officials asked to judge the president fairly often find themselves out of a job when their consciences come into conflict with Trump’s demands.
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Set in a miserable dystopia, Houellebecq’s latest novel is both thought-provoking and wearying, fronted by a hypercynical yet dangerously nostalgic narrator.