Dick Cheney: New Doc Shows the Genius, Chutzpah, and Blithely Twisted Nature of the Former Vice President

There are many unsettling things about Dick Cheney. One of them is how he comes across on camera as so resolutely reasonable. You may remember him—lopsided sneer aside—as a calm, reassuring, even avuncular (if not exactly warm) presence at the vice-presidential debates in 2000 and 2004, or on various Sunday morning talk show appearances during his eight years in office as the world’s most...