Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump

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H ad President Trump , we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through— just maybe —the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel? Impossible. And yet. Hegel’s theory of “world-historical individuals,” men who redirected the course of humanity, focused on three figures: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Hegel described them as unlikely “heroes of an Epoch” for upending established orders that had previously seemed fixed. They were “practical, political

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Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump https://www.theatlantic.com - 29.04.2026 10:00