№ 2026.Jul.14-004
The War on Terror Is a Permanent Building
In *Homeland*, Richard Beck argues that the war on terror is not a betrayal of American values but their expression. In NLR 159, Mertes highlights its most insightful strand — that domestic police violence and overseas military violence are one and the same project — but also faults it for underestimating the autonomy of geopolitics and ideology. The war on terror is not a war that needs to be ended; it is a permanent building that will not dismantle itself.