Peter Lanza, the father of Sandy Hook mass murderer Adam Lanza, was interviewed for this lengthy New Yorker piece. The case remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. My guess, when all is said and done, is … Continue reading →
Yesterday there was a horrific terrorist attack at a train station in China, in which knife-wielding separatists killed at least 29 people and wounded over a hundred others before four of the murderers were shot and killed by police. Points … Continue reading →
Report from Venezuela: A grave line has been crossed. Real, physical violence is finally catching up with the huge reserve of pent-up rhetorical violence we’ve suffered through since 1999. We’ve spent 15 years fearing this. Now we’re living it. [NOTE: … Continue reading →
Read it. And then wonder whether the NY Times ever gets anything right.
Continue reading →When I was young I came across this book of courtroom speeches by Clarence Darrow. Although I was only about eleven years old it enthralled me, and I think it was one of the reasons I ended up going to … Continue reading →
My answer: I’m not at all sure. But I was brainstorming the question after reading about the most recent incident of flash mob violence, which occurred in a Brooklyn mall: A wild flash mob stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall, … Continue reading →
…appears to have been acting alone and was not reported to have telegraphed any particular warning signs, mental illness, or violent tendencies. Good student, excellent debater—who had been kicked off the debating team and was seeking revenge. That certainly can’t … Continue reading →
There don’t seem to be any, except that some acts of evil are inscrutable and beyond our understanding. Many of the assumptions people had about Adam Lanza and his murders are undermined by the official report, according to Jacob Sullum … Continue reading →
Somehow I missed this story when it first came out almost a year and a half ago, but let’s take a break for a moment from Obamacare and re-visit another travesty: President Barack Obama is backing a controversial campaign by … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’m planning to recycle a slightly edited version of some older posts on the World War II era that I think bear repeating. This one originally appeared about three years ago. People often think that knowledge of Nazi genocide … Continue reading →
It’s hard to know what to make of the incident yesterday in Washington DC in which a dental hygienist from Stamford Connecticut, with her one-year-old toddler in the back of her car, seems to have had some sort of meltdown/breakdown/panic … Continue reading →
And even Robert Fisk notices: The Diab family can never return to Maaloula [Syria]. Not since the Christians of this beautiful and sacred town saw their Muslim neighbours leading the armed Nusrah Islamists to their homes. Georgios remembers how he … Continue reading →