Everything, everywhere, all at once. Any one of this week's outrages would be major scandal in other administrations. Collectively, they're the wholesale dismantling of norms that have prevailed for centuries.

With widespread unhappiness with government institutions, voters are listening to candidate promises to blow up business as usual.

As Caroline Fraser posits, there is something in the environment that was common to these serial killers.

The authoritarians have us in the crosshairs, and we’re a target-rich environment.

My point is not to launch a witch-hunt for post-modernists. It is to try to get a handle on how the view that there’s no truth, only power, and the posture of radical skepticism devolve into a cynicism that is corrosive to the soul and to society.

Vietnam was a war that would not end. We kept looking for a way out.