The Unintended Costs of an Armed Society
(Note: This post is NOT part of our current Democracy Symposium. If you want to follow the Symposium – and you should! – you can fid it here.) When I was twenty-one and still...
Tagged: Aurora Shootings
Evil at Dawn
At the New Yorker, Rollo Roming argues that calling James Holmes and/or Jerry Sandusky “evil” raises more questions than it answers. The concept of evil has been tossed into “confusion” and “tatters” by the...
Politicizing the Tragedy in Aurora
However we usually define tragedy, there’s something uniquely debilitating about those catastrophes that break into our lives for utterly arbitrary and senseless reasons. Indeed, traditional literary tragedy is often bearable because the pivotal moment...
